This could be the last year Europe airplane passengers will be prohibited to carry liquids in containers that exceed 3 ounces (100 milliliters) if the new technology being tested to detect the contents of liquids being carried proves to be successful.
The Cobalt Light Systems won an engineering prize in the UK earlier this year for their innovative new system - called Insight100 - that is designed to analyze the liquid contents of containers brought through airport security.
Insight100 uses Ramen spectroscopy to determine the chemical make-up of a liquid, reports Daily Mail. It uses scattered light to recognize and analyze the patterns made by different materials to determine if the liquid is safe to be brought on a flight.
According to Cobalt the machine takes about five seconds to accurately analyze the liquid. The company also added that the false alarm rate is less than one percent.
"This company is not an aviation security company or a pharmaceutical company but there is this technology that can identify chemicals behind barriers and that barrier might be skin or flesh," chief executive Paul Loeffen tells The Guardian.
Insight100 is being tested in 65 airports across Europe. After the testing period if it seems effective, the technology could be seen in all airports throughout the country by January 2016, reports Daily Mail.
Cobalt believes that the uses of this technology could also be expanded to hospitals in the future for non-invasive cancer screening or detecting narcotics, precursors and toxic chemicals, and counterfeit products, reports Daily Mail.
