Airport Security Could Soon Be Smelling Your Body Odor

If we didn’t already have enough to worry about when boarding a plane, now we may also have to make sure our deodorant hasn’t worn off before we stepped in line. If you’ve ever grown tired of digging out countless ID’s, passports, and Lord knows what else, you may be in for some good news.
Some scientists from Madrid have recently discovered that each person has a very unique smell, and that smell can correctly identify a person 85% of the time. So, in theory, a machine can smell you and correctly identify who you are 85% of the time. How does that smell to you? If the identification rate could be brought up to 100%, this technology could change the way we do a lot of things, including airport security.

How Are Your Pits?
Just imagine this if you will – instead of having a TSA officer scan your ID and check your passport the next time you get ready to fly, all you have to do is walk through a machine that takes a whiff of you and completes the identification process. No fingerprints, no eye scanners, none of that – just your body odor.
Before this could even get close to becoming a reality, everyone would somehow have to register their own unique body odor in a process that I can’t even imagine right now. What would you have to do – get finished with a workout and have someone swipe your armpit?
Can you visualize the day when we’re mostly identified by our smells over everything else? I realize we have the technology to do all kinds of amazing things in the world, but this smells a bit off to me. What do you think? Would you be completely comfortable with getting smelled each and every time you wanted to get on a plane?

How To Save A Phone From Water Damage

There must be hundreds of thousands of people out there who have dropped their phone down the loo, jumped into a pool with it in their pocket or ended up in another situation where their phone is submerged in water. There is so much advice out there about how to rescue the handset, with some people pressing all the buttons in a bid to turn it off, before blasting it with a hairdryer or leaving it on the radiator.
The key thing is not to panic. Here are some helpful tips that may just save your precious phone and prevent you from having to shell out for a new one.

The Need For Speed

The obvious tip is to fish it out of the water as soon as possible, the quicker you are, the more chance you have at reducing the damage. If possible remove the battery, however if you have a handset where the battery cannot be removed, then you’ll just have to switch the phone off. By cutting the power quickly, you prevent the likelihood of a short circuit.
A lot of people thing that by applying heat to the wet device, it gives the parts chance to dry off but that is a myth and can actually cause more damage to the delicate electronics. Instead wipe the phone with a clean, dry towel, taking extra care to ensure there is no water entering the ports or openings.
You now have a choice as to what you do next. If you have been recommended by a friend to throw your phone into a bag of rice, then consider first what effect the rice may have on your phone. If the rice absorbs the water, you are at risk of your phone being sat in a mushy mess, with perhaps rice entering the ports. Those in the know also suggest that rice starch can have a detrimental effect to the workings of a phone. Although this hasn’t been proven, you really don’t want to put your phone at any more risk.
A smarter and safer option is to use synthetic desiccants, which most of us have lying around in shoe boxes, delivery boxes and new handbags. When you come across these little desiccant packets, don’t throw them away (which I admit I used to do) but rather store them all in a container that has an air-tight seal. That way you have a ready-made emergency phone rescue packet, that is just as good as any commercial product you can buy, and it’s cheaper. It’s important to note that the container must be air-tight, otherwise the desiccant packet will absorb water from the air as well as your phone. Also make sure you have enough of the packets to do the job.

If you are unfortunate and don’t have your homemade phone rescue pack ready, then you do have other options. The Bheestie Bag and Dry-All are both air-tight plastic pouches, which your phone slips in to. Dry-All is filled with desiccant and dries your phone out in between 24 and 48 hours. The Bheestie Bag can be purchased for $20 and the Dry-All for $6. Just keep them on your shelf for those unexpected emergencies.
If you team together speed and these quick fixes then you could well save your phone. If not then I’m afraid a new phone it is, perhaps go for a waterproof model but for now get saving desiccant sachets!

Leap Motion Device

 Gesture control on a tablet has been around for years, but this small device takes it to a new level. Leap Motion sits next to your computer and can detect your hand movements with an accuracy of 1/100 of a millimeter. Without touching your screen, you can flip through photos or reach into a 3D diagram and manipulate objects. For business users, the implication could be as simple as this: a way to answer the phone or give a presentation with just a flick of the hand.