"This is one of the scanners," he explains, pointing to a piece of kit that looks a bit like a 1970s radio.
Every single posh person in England is revealed to have a Nazi costume in their wardrobe Again, already something of a given but is only confirmed during a Guardian investigation conducted via the luggage scanners in airports in St Moritz, Courchevel, Dubai and Bali.
MRI scanners were used to observe finger joints as they "clicked", showing that the noise is made by bubbles forming in fluid that lubricates the knuckles.
After the harriers' tags stopped transmitting, Jones and another RSPB investigations officer had spent a week quietly scouring the moorland where the two birds disappeared, using handheld scanners.
The scanners, which can run on the same battery for around five years, transmit their readings back to base every 12 hours, over a secure wireless network.
Wireless scanners and bar codes enable inventory management to be digitised.
What may prove harder is convincing the world that the rest of GE which runs from lamps to locomotives via medical scanners, oil-drilling equipment, nuclear reactors, jet engines, water-treatment plants and all manner of other electrical and mechanical gear still deserves to exist.
He also suggests the payment of a C$1 billion-a-year transfer to help Canadians pay for "catastrophic" drug expenses, as well as extra money to boost access to health care in rural areas, reform the delivery of primary care and improve the provision of fancy diagnostics such as MRI scanners (see chart).
Some types of biometric scanners worked well in the laboratory, but ran into problems in real-world environments when scanning children, old people, people with small or sweaty hands, bricklayers or subjects with eye conditions.
People lying inside the scanners are shown different products or brands and then asked questions about them.
They imagine conductors with hand-held, Wi-Fi-enabled barcode scanners roaming the aisles.
