Surprisingly, the pilots' technical skills, notably their ability to scan instruments and operate manual controls, had remained largely intact.
Current programmes believed to be deployed by DHS include the ability to scan a limited amount of social media posts.
How? Customers discover that they need more than the basic storage space or want some extra features, like the ability to scan PDF documents for a particular word.
Here's this week's Android selection: The British retailer has launched its official Android app, promising details from its 200,000-product catalogue, and the ability to scan items in-store to find out more information and watch videos.
An updated version, available this month, will add an alternative scanning algorithm to restore deleted files and file names more quickly, and will add the ability to scan hard drives as well.
Other built-in features include the ability to scan text and translate it to another language and a section labeled Me that combines all your social media accounts into a single feed.
Mike Wehrs, chief executive of Scanbuy, the mobile bar code platform that works with Home Depot, said more than 25 million people in the United States already had the ability to scan with their mobile phones.
Rivet Joints have the ability to scan automatically across an array of communications frequencies, allowing an operator to home in on individual frequencies and pass that information on to the Awacs radar or J-Stars ground-surveillance planes, which have better ability to pinpoint the locations of the transmissions.
According to a leaked document in which technology companies are invited to offer their services, Egypt's interior ministry says it wants the ability to scan Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp and Viber in real-time for usage that might "harm public security or incite terrorism".
Android Retailer House of Fraser has launched an iPhone app offering more than 1,000 designer brands to browse, with gift and wish list features, a store finder, and the ability to scan products in-store to find out more about them.
Other common age-related deficits include eye muscle dysfunction, which impairs the ability to scan the driving environment, and poor contrast sensitivity, which can make it hard to detect curves in the road, see a gray vehicle at an intersection or a pedestrian at a crosswalk or see clearly in bad weather.
