Welcome to the year 2010, the ‘noughties’ are over, and it’s time technology started progressing even more into futuristic regimes. One of the first idea’s to come out of the new decade is the idea of a ‘mind-reading scanner’ for use at airports. Security experts say that a ‘new approach’ is needed in the airports, far more advanced than just detecting items that a person carries on their flights in and out of the country.

They will need to detect a travelers motivation, and one such scanner that is produced by WeCU Technology is already being tested in Israel. The way it works is to use images projected onto airport security screens that only a terrorist would be able to recognize. The device will require sensors and humans to operate it, and will observe the person’s reactions to the symbols displayed on the screens. It will also monitor body language, heart rate, changes in eye movement and other forms of suspicious behavior.

Other mind-reading scanners that are around are ones that rely on scanning facial movements and pupil dilation which indicate malicious motives, and could be implemented in the very near future. The TSA have shown interest in the devices and have given grants to the Iseaeli-based WeCU for research and development of the mid-reading project.

Source: eCanada Now