Magnetometer

Security Staff at Reagan Airport forced a seputgenerian Congressman to strip to his underwear, refusing to believe that the thing that was ringing the magnetometer was his artificial hip. ❋ Unknown (2002)

CAMPOS: Well, the information I've gotten is that we're closing terminals 4 through 8 because a-- one of the machines that they use to detect metal, it's called the magnetometer, hasn't been working since about, as near as they can find, about 5: 00 AM. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Once he isolated the ideal crystals, Tarduno used a device called a superconducting quantum interface device, or SQUID magnetometer, which is normally used to troubleshoot computer chips because it's extremely sensitive to the smallest magnetic fields. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Compass, has now been rendered obsolete by the iPhone 3G S, which has a built-in component called a magnetometer that gives the phone its own built-in compass. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The goal is to locate subsurface resources and to determine the geographic extent of the battlefield using GIS/GPS work, LiDAR and remote sensing methods such as magnetometer and soil resistivity surveys and archaeological testing. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Further digging into the various configuration files turned up references to an "auto-focus camera," "magnetometer," and "Voice Control." ❋ Unknown (2009)

By combing the iPhone 3.0 configuration files, MacRumors 'sources also found evidence of a "magnetometer", which could mean a digital compass, and "voice control", which could mean voice dialing. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Also, I don't know if I care or not, but I don't see any mention of a "magnetometer" which seems to be pretty common in high end phones these days. ❋ Unknown (2009)

By combing the iPhone 3.0 configuration files, MacRumors 'sources also found evidence of a "magnetometer," which could mean a digital compass, and "voice control," which could mean voice dialing. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"Astrogeek" said, "As for the assertion that its somehow wrong or odd that PI's make their data proprietary, this was done with THEMIS on Mars Odyssey; MOC, MOLA, and the magnetometer on Mars Global Surveyor ..." ❋ Unknown (2009)

A police officer tried to arrest the student as he walked through a magnetometer, and the student fought back. ❋ Washington Post Editors (2010)

As for the assertion that its somehow wrong or odd that PI's make their data proprietary, this was done with THEMIS on Mars Odyssey; MOC, MOLA, and the magnetometer on Mars Global Surveyor; all of the MESSENGER instruments (check out how many images have been put on the MESSENGER website so far ... not all of them!); and all of Galileo's instruments; just to name a few. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In one region, the service "has not provided the required eight hours of (X-ray) or magnetometer training to its 1,500 guards since 2004," the report says. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The FPS also is increasing X-ray and magnetometer training for guards and expects all of them to be trained by the end of this year, the GAO reported. ❋ Joe Davidson (2010)

In instances where a magnetometer was being utilized they were waved through without being screened after identifying themselves as federal law enforcement. ❋ Sari Horwitz (2011)

Messenger's payload includes narrow and wide angle cameras and a laser altimeter to map Mercury's cratered surface, several spectrometers to probe the composition of the rocks and the planet's tenuous atmosphere, and a magnetometer to study how the magnetic field, springing from its outsized iron core, interacts with the solar wind. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The next iPhone is already a known quantity: a 3G iPhone with a magnetometer, and possibly a front-facing camera, more memory, and/or a slightly faster processor (like the iPod Touch already has). ❋ Unknown (2009)