Monday, 14. March 2005
Topic: SECURITY - on March 14, 2005 at 4:53:00 PM CET
British Firm Breaks New Ground in Surveillance Science
The "suicide bomber" clips a shrapnel-filled belt around his waist and buttons up his jacket to conceal it.
As he turns back and forth in front of a semi-circular white panel, about the size of a shower cubicle, a computer monitor shows the metal-packed cylinders standing out clearly in white against his body.
This is no real security alarm: it's a demonstration at the British technology group QinetiQ of a scanning device that sees under people's clothes to spot not just metal but other potential threats like ceramic knives or hidden drugs.
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