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Science fiction x-ray device is here...

X-ray device is here Special effects wizards awed audiences when a gun toting Arnold Swarzenegger was exposed by a full body x-ray scanner in the movie Total Recall.

Now the American Security & Control company is bringing a similar technology into our Brave New World.

ASC, world-wide distributors of CONPASS X-1280, the first high speed scanning X-Ray detector designed specifically for through the body analysis of fully clothed human beings, allows a fully clothed individual to be totally x-rayed and analyzed within 10 seconds without any fuss, muss or time-wasting things like warrants and physical searches, including body cavities.

It works using a very narrow fan shaped scanning x-ray beam characterized by extremely low x-ray exposure, not exceeding the normal environmental radiation dose associated with a one-hour airplane flight. People are carried across the beam on a moving sidewalk as commonly used in airports and the computer enhanced x-ray view is ready for analysis within 10 seconds.

The CONPASS is the only such system that is safe for the examination of humans and animals possibly carrying contraband, like drugs or other items commonly hidden in clothing or in the body. New BodySearch systems are being installed at six international airports around the United States before the big Y2K travel crunch.

The machines will be installed at the Los Angeles International Airport; Hartsfield International Airport, Georgia; Newark International Airport; JFK International Airport; Houston Intercontinental Airport; and Washington Dulles International Airport.

The unit sells for $450,000. including installation training. (Freedom costs extra.)