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This Flirtatious NYC Airport Avatar Was Definitely Designed by a Dude [Video]
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has installed in Newark Liberty, JFK, and LaGuardia airports an interactive avatar projected onto a plexiglass silhouette of a woman's body. Lost and disoriented travelers can ask her for help with things like getting to the correct gate, security ch...
Internet Nobodies Aren't Allowed Inside This VIP Lounge [Klout]
In terms of social status and celebrity, the internet can do a lot for a person. It can afford book deals to dogs, and it can turn a shrill teenager into a Billboard chart-topper.More »
Three Delta Employees Charged Over $600,000 Drug Duffle [Crime]
If you're going to smuggle a half-million dollars worth for heroin and speed through Hartsfield-Jackson International, try not to forget it at baggage claim.More »
A Billion Details and No Precedent—An Inside Look at the TSA's Scrambling Start [Tsa]
Building the TSA from scratch in the months following 9/11 seemed an insurmountable task, unrivaled in both scope and size. In Permanent Emergency, former TSA administrator Kip Hawley vividly reconstructs the breakneck pace at which this gargantuan security agency came about and how it came to be...
Airport Terminal Evacuated After TSA Boneheads Neglect to Screen a Baby [WTFriday]
Authorities were forced to evacuate Terminal C at Newark International Airport today after TSA failed to screen a baby properly. Luckily nothing bad happened this time, but the oversight was more moronic than you might think—and potentially very dangerous.More »
How I Got Paid $600 to Party in a Swank Airport Lounge [Frequent Flyer X]
Air travel is miserable. You're herded, shouted at, hemmed in, and—if lucky—placated with sugared water and the cheapest feed available in mass quantities. Even the corn syrup that once "honey-roasted" your peanuts is too exotic for your airborne enjoyment these days.More »
A TSA Agent Has Been Stealing iPads from Passenger Luggage [Tsa]
Here's another awful thing to add to your oft updated list of why the TSA is terrible: a TSA baggage inspector has been charged with theft by a public servant for stealing eight iPads (on different occasions) from passenger luggage at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport.More »
Add this Air Puffer to Your List of Silly Things Banned by the TSA [Tsa]
While the TSA may have a point not allowing cannonballs and ninja stars onto flights, it bars way more innocuous items like baby food and...air puffers?More »
Is It Really This Easy to Fool a TSA Body Scanner? (UPDATED) [Video]
It's not every day that we see something as scary as this. Those fancy, expensive, TSA body scanners that blast you with radiation and can see you naked in the name of security? It would seem it's easier to slip things past them than metal detectors.More »
The All-Weather Radar That Keeps Your Plane from Landing on Luggage Trolleys [Monster Machines]
The ASDE-3/AMASS radar system that spotted an errant Jeep on Philadelphia International's runways has one fatal flaw—it thinks raindrops are incoming jets and goes nuts during downpours. The ASDE Model X, however, monitors runways rain or shine.More »
