Engadget RSS Feed http://www.engadget.com Engadget http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif Engadget http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2013 AOL Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/ <![CDATA[Conceptual airport identifier skips your naughty bits, scans straight to the bone]]> http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/21/conceptual-airport-identifier-skips-your-naughty-bits-scans-str/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_campaign=Engadget http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/21/conceptual-airport-identifier-skips-your-naughty-bits-scans-str/ http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/21/conceptual-airport-identifier-skips-your-naughty-bits-scans-str/?utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Engadget#comments Prototype airport identifier skips your naughty bits, scans straight to the bone Not sure how you feel about those airport scanners that reveal your bits and pieces to under-paid guards? We think they make air travel rather titillating, but perhaps you'll be more comfortable with a conceptual scanner that skips your fleshy bits entirely and looks only at your bones. Being developed by a team of researchers at Wright State University, such a scanner could use existing technology to detect the skeletal structure of a person. The idea is that a person's bony bits are unique and, unlike one's face, impossible to disguise (short of some serious surgery). If a database of registered criminals and suspects could be created they could be identified with such a scanner, in theory even at a distance, far more reliably than via facial scan. Right now it's just a concept, but the idea is to have a working prototype by next year. After that, nobody's clavicles will be safe.

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