Yet another thing we need to worry about while at the airport.
Word has it that Homeland Security is now testing the next generation of scanners to screen you while at the airport- a body scanner that apparently can read your mind.
A new system called MALINTENT is a machine that searches you body for non-verbal cues that would predict whether or not you mean to harm your fellow passengers. How does it work?
It uses a series of sensors and images that read your body temperature, heat rate and respiration for unconscious tells that is invisible to the naked eye. But these signals terrorists and criminals may display in advance of a potential attack. Subjects are not hooked up or even strapped down to get a reading, its basically like an X-ray for bad intentions.
As of now all the sensors and equipment are packaged inside a mobile screening lab. And just last week, the lab was in Maryland, scanning just over 100 people.


