New Tech Could End Shoe Removal at Airport Security
Instead of taking off their shoes, departing passengers could step onto a small platform that would use electromagnetic waves to check for any object hidden inside shoes that could pose a threat onboard.
May 25, 2021 • (TNS) The inconvenience of taking off your shoes to go through a security check at airports may become nothing but a memory.
Instead, departing passengers could step onto a small platform that would use electromagnetic waves to check for any object hidden inside shoes that could pose a threat onboard.
Two seconds later, quicker than passengers now can put their shoes back on, the security check would be done.
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The first time salmon were released above Chief Joseph and, later, Grand Coulee dams, Hemene James watched elders from the Coeur d’Alene Tribe. Many weren’t even old enough to remember when salmon last swam in those waters.
In their faces he saw pure emotion, as salmon slipped into the waters where they hadn’t been since Grand Coulee Dam blocked their path in 1942.
Then, he looked at the children. Their excitement was infectious. They jumped and ran into the water, trying to catch the fish swimming upstream.
“It was a little, tiny glimpse of what our world used to be like in the days that the fish were here. So it was very moving and very encouraging,” James says. “This work gets monotonous at times and you feel like you re spinning your wheels. But that was that glimmer of hope from the old ones that you guys are on the right path. Keep moving.”
Originally published on May 5, 2021 8:04 pm
When the Grand Coulee Dam was built between 1933 and 1941, it effectively blocked salmon from traveling to the upper reaches of the Columbia River. CREDIT: U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
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The first time salmon were released above Chief Joseph and, later, Grand Coulee dams, Hemene James watched elders from the Coeur d’Alene Tribe. Many weren’t even old enough to remember when salmon last swam in those waters.
In their faces he saw pure emotion, as salmon slipped into the waters where they hadn’t been since Grand Coulee Dam blocked their path in 1942.
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RICHLAND, Wash. When you go through the security line at the airport, unless you’re in pre-check, you know the drill. Take off your shoes and put them back on.
But that could be a thing of the past soon, thanks to new shoe scanning technology developed by researchers at a Washington state-based research lab.
Removing your shoes at the airport has only been part of the flying experience since 2006, following multiple threats after 9/11.
Now, researchers with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, who created holographic millimeter scanning technology to detect threats under clothing, has made it possible through shoes.