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PopSci: GE Toxin Detector is “Best of What’s New”

It’s not just personal jetpacks and cars that drive themselves, but also a GE mobile toxin detector that made the recently-released Popular Science “Best of What’s New” list. Described as a “simple and fast, point-and-shoot toxin detector,” the StreetLab Mobile can reliably identify potentially harmful liquids, powders and solids in [...]

GE to build mobile nuclear threat detection system

GE Global Research recently was awarded funding from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to develop a working prototype of a mobile Standoff Radiation Imaging System. The funding is part of a larger program to advance technologies that allow law enforcement to better protect the public against nuclear threats.