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Photos: 'Hero' bot hunts criminals
Photo It's a backbreaking, dirty and often dangerous job to look under every truck and with 10,000 of these vehicles each week boarding ferries, it is physically impossible UK Border Agency staff to personally check them all. [24 Jul 2008]
Photos: Heathrow's T5 tech ready for take-off
Photo The desk includes a phone connected to the terminal's high capacity IP network and a barcode scanner to register boarding passes. This is one of the 96 bag drop points air travellers will be using when they pass through the terminal. [12 Feb 2008]
Photos: St Pancras steams ahead with new tech
Photo The machines work in much the same way as those operated by airlines, with a reference code requested to confirm the booking before boarding tickets are issued. Once passengers have their ticket, they pass through these gates to the Eurostar... [19 Nov 2007]
Biometrics wing their way into Gatwick
News Editor's blog silicon.com editor, Tony Hallett, makes some observations about modern air travel and says you can tear up that boarding pass… Gatwick airport is the latest UK airport to trial biometric fingerprinting technology to boost... [09 Oct 2007]
Editor's Blog: Tear up that boarding pass...
Comment I passed him a boarding pass that I had printed up only moments earlier at a self-service kiosk, which all went swimmingly, too - the airlines are getting there. So isn't it funny that on Saturday morning as I kicked my heels among the construction... [08 Oct 2007]
Bar Code Printers Wirelessly Extend Check-in Systems for American Airlines
White Paper In return, they receive a boarding pass with their seat assignment and bag tag receipts. Boarding pass in hand, passengers are able to bypass busy ticket counters at the front of the terminal and check in stands at the gate, stopping only to... [03 Aug 2007]
Editor's Blog: Tech improves... but we don't?
Comment It had regular economy check-in (a nightmare of a snaking queue), online check-in (for those who checked in over the web and were arriving for 'bag drop') and DIY check-in, whereby passengers use a kiosk to get checked in, print up a boarding pass... [28 Jun 2007]
Photos: Biometric security comes to Heathrow
Photo A fingerprint scanner on the kiosk verifies the person against the details on the card and then issues a boarding pass. For those without a card the miSense kiosk scans and records the passenger's passport and right index fingerprint and then... [06 Dec 2006]
Heathrow to run biometric security checks
News The basic security screening requires the passenger to scan their passport and right index finger at a self-service check-in kiosk before getting a boarding card. The passenger's fingerprint is then checked again at automatic barriers before... [06 Dec 2006]
Fake airline boarding pass website shut down
News Soghoian's "Northwest Airlines Boarding Pass Generator" enables people to create boarding passes that appeared virtually identical to the ones printed from the Northwest Airlines website. A website that let anyone with an internet connection and a... [31 Oct 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Airport security frustrations
Comment I was later picked out at random for a full shakedown at the boarding gate where security staff emptied my computer bag and pockets. Each time I pass the pile of confiscated cosmetics and bottles containing everything from water to wine, milk and... [25 Sep 2006]
BA CIO: 'Terminal 5 tech will revolutionise air travel'
News We've simplified our fares, we enabled you to upgrade, we enabled you to book a seat and one of the things that's really going great guns at the moment is print your own boarding pass at home and do online check-in and people absolutely love that... [21 Sep 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Travel pains
Comment After 15 frustrating minutes at the self-service kiosk, I then had to queue for regular check-in, ask the clerk to cancel my boarding pass and reissue passes for adjacent seating. Written whilst not travelling and despatched to silicon.com from an... [24 Apr 2006]
British Airways moves towards online check-in
News Passengers who check-in on ba.com will be able to print their boarding pass from their home or office printer up to 24 hours before their flight, which BA says will allow them to proceed immediately to the boarding gate on arrival at the airport. [21 Mar 2006]
Taipei residents to pay for commuting on mobiles
News For example, a businessman making an overseas trip can book his flight and hotel room via his mobile phone and use it at the airport to print out his boarding pass. Philips and BenQ have introduced a prototype Near Field Communication (NFC) phone... [15 Jul 2005]
