TRENDY GADGET

Department of Homeland Security, Science & Technology Directorate has been developing new technologies to detect, deter, and defeat terrorism. You can see the technology in action on National Geographic Channel’s Hi-Tech War on Terror on Wednesday, January 28, 2009, at 10 p.m. ET/PT. The technology is designed to harden aircraft from explosions, create a high-altitude missile detect and countermeasures system, add security sensors to shipping containers, build a superconducting electrical transmission grid, detect hostile persons by remotely screening their physiology, scan people from a distance for explosives, and more.

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