the future at airports

Remember the movie Total Recall? Commuters were x-rayed to reveal concealed weapons.

tsascreeners

It’s coming to airports soon. But will look like this:

SEE THROUGH SECURITY
Spiegel

Sentinel non-invasive walk-through scanner
Sentinel non-invasive walk-through scanner

AirportTechnology

… you wake on time and make your way to the airport in your battery powered car. At the UnitedDeltaContinental airlines desk you wave your phone in front of the check-in kiosk and a green light indicates that you are cleared to proceed to the security checkpoint.

At the checkpoint, an agent waves his rfid reader tag in front of the wallet in your pocket, and you stick your hand in a biometric ID reader. The agent stares at a hidden display for a few seconds and allows you to walk through the full body scanner. As you pass through the device, you think back to the days when you had to place your bags on that stupid conveyor belt, and how it always delayed getting to the gate on time.

At the gate, you connect your iPhone 5G with the gate information system, and you instantly receive a message about your upgrade request, sadly you’ll be stuck in coach again for this flight.

Boarding is delayed 20 minutes, once it begins, your phone begins to vibrate that your boarding group is allowed to get on the plane. At the gate, you stare into the airline iris scanner, and the gate attendant allows you to board. …

Gadling – The future at the airport involves your phone, fingers and eyes

One thought on “the future at airports

  1. David Sykes

    Hey Rick,

    I noticed you also read Boing Boing. You might be interested in a book written by Cory Doctorow called Little Brother- it deals with security and surveillance issues. It’s freely available on a Creative Commons license: http://craphound.com/littlebrother/download/

    Written for young adults, but it’s actually pretty good.
    Happy new year.

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