Colour X-ray machine

Big brother is watching you, and your clothes, and your skin, bones, organs and anybody else's organs if you happen to be carrying any.

This is the latest brainchild of a system gone wrong.

Ok, it could be good for medical stuff, saves them cutting you open i guess, but you can just see the justifications for using it in every airport, train/bus station, shopping center, high street bank.... even the kids play grounds at schools, scanning for illegal candies.

A colour X-ray machine that can detect the chemical make-up as well as the structure and shape of a sample has been demonstrated by UK researchers. They say the new technique could be better at spotting smuggled substances or abnormal body tissue.

Regular X-ray machines and CT scanners can produce images in 2 or 3D, but only in monochrome. In the same way that black-and-white film is blind to other wavelengths of light, these techniques cannot distinguish between different wavelengths of X-ray.

"We have miniaturised a detector that can differentiate those different wavelengths," says Robert Cernik, a materials scientist at Manchester University, UK, who developed the device with colleagues Kern Hauw Khor and Conny Hansson.

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