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...Detecting: Environment Technology Group, a subsidiary of London-based Smiths Aerospace, plans to make 10 times more of its handheld biological detection systems, which sell in the $20,000 range and help emergency response crews measure for anthrax or smallpox. Likewise, an American firm called InVision, whose technology can sniff out explosives in public places, is doubling production...
There's fresh interest in a handheld gadget called the Cyranose 320, which can be programmed with the "smellprint" of various microbes and then issue an alert if it detects them. Cyrano Sciences, which is based in Pasadena, Calif., and is associated with the California Institute of Technology, has been selling the electronic nose for more than a year. The company manufactured it for use in the food-service and chemical industries. The device can tell whether basil is fresh and warn if a shipment of fish has started to rot. It can also identify contaminants in perfumes or chemicals...
...could change all that. Here's how it works: morphine is stored in a pager-size pump just under the skin of the abdomen. A plastic catheter runs from the pump to the fluid-filled space outside the spinal cord, where pain signals travel. When the patient presses a handheld remote, the pump sends a measured dose of morphine directly to the spine. According to its maker, the SynchroMed works better and requires much smaller doses of medication than intravenous methods because it intercepts pain signals on their way to the brain...
...TECH SIGHTS Handheld or weapon-mounted scopes and heat sensors that pinpoint targets through smoke, haze, fog and darkness...
BOMB BUSTERS Explosives detectors that are handheld or able to sense explosives up to 200 ft. away; also, walk-through portals that can flag people carrying bombs...