Airport Security

I travel almost every day - I leave the house, jump in my car and drive down the road. Except for snowy or icy days when my car is covered and I have to brush/scrape it off, there's no delay. It's quick, it's easy and I am as independent as could be.

But when you must travel by air, at least here in the US, it is about as inconvenient as it could possibly be. Short of full body cavity searches, there's not much left for the airlines and homeland security to probe into. They check your ID, they probably have your credit card number, they make you take off your belt and shoes, you must empty your pockets - and the last time I flew they dumped the contents of my wife's purse and pawed through everything.

It's pretty humiliating. I avoid flying as much as I possibly can. And the idiots at the airlines wonder why they're going broke.

But, technology may provide some relief. The following provides some insight into a new machine that could possible be just the beginning to relieving some of the stress.

From Boing-Boing...

Truthfully, I find the liquid ban to be more ridiculous, but a lot of people hate having to take off their shoes at security checkpoints. But Ben-Gurion International in Tel Aviv has just installed some new shoe scanners that should let passengers keep their kicks on. If one of the world's most secure airports is endorsing this new technology, we're wondering if indeed our shoe salvation has finally arrived.