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Nintendo Wii Balance Boards to Fight Aircraft Terrorism?

12:20AM Danny Allen | A $US20 million project funded by US Homeland Security is researching ways to detect how suspicious you are by tracking your temperature, breathing and eye movements. And get this: they’ve modified a Wii Balance board to check for nervous fidgeting/weight-shifting. More »
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Homeland Security: We Can Still Search You, But We’ll Be Nicer

6:30PM Danny Allen | Your laptop, mobile phone or camera can still be seized at the US border without suspicion of wrongdoing, but new guidelines require border protection and customs to take a maximum of 5 and 30 days, respectively, to complete searches. More »