Companies are implanting bar code scanners in pens, key fobs, cell phones and pagers.
These are the clear, cylindrical scanners using millimeter wave technology and sold by L-3 Communications.
Philips filled it with big-ticket medical equipment like magnetic resonance imagers, CT scanners and X-ray devices.
Are we going to see these kind of somewhat intrusive body scanners and so forth?
"They (criminals) always carry radios or carry cellphones that have police scanners on them, " said Sgt.
Eventually, Mr Sharma expects to see Xerox scanners and copiers with data-hiding functions built into them.
Instead of X-ray scanners, European airports will use millimeter-wave scanners that utilize low-energy radio waves.
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"We will see low-cost 256-slice scanners that can pinpoint atherosclerosis in high-resolution 3-D images, " says Kessler.
That analysis borrows heavily from technology developed at the university for use with medical scanners.
The most expensive systems feature high-resolution outdoor cameras, reinforced windows, motion detectors and facial recognition scanners.
Mobeam works with the scanners already in use by many grocery stores, convenience stores and retailers.
Or scour the planet for new sources using scanners thousands of miles in space.
Said QR code sends adventurous scanners to a website for the Kraay's family farm website.
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He later became president of a Litton Industries unit called Intermec, a maker of bar-code scanners.
Fingerprint scanners and devices that generate time-specific codes offer greater security, but they require hardware.
Currently, the carrier is studying use of hand-held scanners to improve accuracy in routing bags.
But what everyone wants to know is which airports have the full-body scanners in operation.
Such heterostructures are widely employed to make the lasers in compact-disc players and retailers' laser scanners.
However, keep in mind many code scanners don't tell you specifically what's wrong, in plain English.
Body scanners are to be introduced at Heathrow Airport in about three weeks, Mr Johnson said.
There everything is automated and sorted on conveyor belts using barcode scanners and sophisticated lifts.
Among the measures, she said, was the installation of body scanners in some prisons.
My understanding is both airports had the scanners available, but did not use them.
Whole Body Imaging scanners being tested at many airports have the potential to detect explosives.
He is the poster child for who we should be screening with these WBI scanners.
And this month fresh measures were introduced with the widespread roll-out of full-body scanners.
Shadow Home Secretary David Davis said the installation of scanners in some schools was "long overdue".
Now with the scanners you cannot scan the wrong product and send it out.
Pandigital's award-winning line of scanners have been acclaimed for their ease-of-use and excellent performance.
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The kit is to be replaced with scanners that show hidden objects on an avatar.
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