Israel Matzav

Just don't let them touch my junk

Israeli scientists have created a detector, similar looking to a full-body scanner but with three concealed cartridges each containing eight specially trained mice.

According to the New Scientist the mice work four-hour shifts and are more accurate than using dogs and x-ray machines, the researchers claim.

Air is pumped into the cartridges every four hours so the mice can breathe.

When the mice sense traces of drugs they run to a side chamber where the trigger an alarm, the magazine said.

Eran Lumbroso, and inventor whose company BioExplorers is hopeful a larger company will help with the final stages of development, said: "It is as if they are smelling a cat and escaping. We detect the escape."

The device was tested last year on 1,000 shoppers in a Tel Aviv shopping mall when the mice successfully picked out 22 people carrying mock explosives.

Labels: airport security, full body scanner, Israeli airport security, strip or grope

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 5:34 PM