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In the ever-evolving war against airline passengers, the Transportation Security Administration continues to develop new weapons of mass dysfunction. Travelers have long been harassed with x-ray machines, metal-detecting wands and inscrutable verbal vetting like "Did someone put something in your luggage when you weren't looking?" Then in 2006 the TSA began quietly testing two new anti-personnel weapons. One is sort of an automated lie detector, a booth that interrogates suspects with damning questions ("Did someone put something in your luggage when you weren't looking?") while software analyzes feedback from biometric sensors busily monitoring blood pressure, pulse rate and nervous tics.

In the ever-evolving war against airline passengers, the Transportation Security Administration continues to develop new weapons of mass dysfunction. Travelers have long been harassed with x-ray machines, metal-detecting wands and inscrutable verbal vetting like "Did someone put something in your luggage when you weren't looking?" Then in 2006 the TSA began quietly testing two new anti-personnel weapons.