Her hand luggage was X-rayed along with her coat and camera bag, while she walked through a scanner.

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Then be certain to take everything out of your pockets if you go through a full body scanner.

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After the shoot Segal extracts the old-fashioned 70mm film from the 6-foot-long chopper and runs it through a giant drum scanner to produce massive photo files, 500 megabytes per image.

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Patton, an employee at LAX for 11 years, had claimed that Kennedy shoved her after she told him his bag was too big to fit through an X-ray scanner.

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New Zealand's Industrial Research looks to be attracting quite a bit of interest in its prototype handheld 3D scanner, snagging fellow New Zealanders Weta Digital to help put the technology through its paces and now hoping the police will hop on board to put the scanner to more grisly uses.

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After then checking in as normal at the same kiosk, passengers can pass through a miSense automatic security gate by placing their finger on a scanner and inserting their boarding card into the reader.

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Its PIPA Touch scanner can add biometric authentication to phones' lock screens, websites and other tasks through a developer kit, and a modular design lets it slip into cases for the Android, iOS and Windows Phone devices that should receive support.

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If neither the scanner nor the Telecode department can appropriately identify the offending label, the package winds its way through the system to be inspected by hand.

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Accessories that can add a fingerprint scanner to your current phone have proven to be popular, and voice recognition is now available through many different services.

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