For just one scanning unit, the cost is between $130,000 and $170,000.
The TSA says the Outagamie County Regional Airport in the Fox Valley and Central Wisconsin Airport in Mosinee will have the scanners by the end of the month.
But these machines dont come without controversy.
But Austin Straubels not exactly leading edge.
A generic outline
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Eliminating the need for passengers the passenNew security scanner reviewger specific images; it streamlines the checkpoint screening, said John Stewart, TSA Assistant Federal Security Director.
Installed last week and now fully operational, Austin Straubel has two scanners; one in each terminal hall.
The machine uses electromagnetic waves, safe for implants and other medical devices, to create a picture of anything a person may be carrying.
Instead of a detailed image, there is now an ambiguous outline of a human being.
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Now, if you pass the scan, there is no outline.
But the TSA says not any more.
If you dont, the computer shows where a potential threat may be using the generic outline.
When they were first rolled out, the machines created extremely detailed images of the body of the person being scanned.
It may look like something out of Star Trek, but the Transportation Security Administration says the only place the Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT) body scanner will transport you is to the other side of the security checkpoint line.
The TSA says more than 500 units are already in use in more than 100 airports across the country.
New software technology takes the review of those detailed images out of a TSA agents hands and leaves a computer to do the analysis.
Travelers FOX 11 talked to welcome the technology.
Really, Im not concerned, said Kyle Niemi, waiting to board his plane to Cleveland. Its all about safety and knowing that everybody who got on the plane went through the same screening process, I feel a little safer.
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Austin Straubel is just one of two Wisconsin airports that have the new body screening technology. General Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee also has the scanners.
You may remember the public uproar caused by the machines.
