Screener Mice



Mice
The Israelis have created an airport screening device which uses trained mice inside sealed canisters. Reportedly, the mice are more accurate than dogs or X-ray machines.

Air is pumped into the cartridges every four hours so the mice can breathe.

When the mice sense traces of drugs they run to a side chamber where the trigger an alarm, the magazine said.

Eran Lumbroso, and inventor whose company BioExplorers is hopeful a larger company will help with the final stages of development, said: "It is as if they are smelling a cat and escaping. We detect the escape."

It's not known whether animal rights advocates concur with the use of mice. In any event, I'm real skeptical.