New technology being developed to sniff out bombs: Dogs will soon be seeking unemployment benefits
Rather than using the superior smelling techniques of dogs, air port security will soon be using sophisticated laser technology to find bombs:
A Scottish company has developed sensor technology which it says can “fingerprint” explosives and could be used in airports.
Cascade Technologies believes its system, which uses a laser-based sensor to detect explosives, is at a “critical” stage and is seeking government support, the BBC reports.
The company, which was spun out of Strathclyde University in 2003, says its quantum cascade lasers are more effective at detecting gases in the air than trained sniffer dogs.
The article goes on to say that this technology could be put in place within two years, which is a pretty fast track indeed. Even though it claims that it can out-sniff dogs, it doesn’t say to what degree.
