The hellish ordeal of going through airport security may involve throwing away all your liquids, walking shoeless on a filthy floor, being groped by a glorified rent-a-cop, and becoming the nude subject of body scans… but at least you won’t need to take your iPad out of your bag along with your other laptops. Yet.
According to the TSA, iPads don’t need to be removed from carry-on luggage when going through X-Ray screening.
It all comes down to thinness: the iPad’s svelte design makes it easier for the scanner to identify. Additionally, since there’s a minimum of peripherals available for the iPad, the tablet is unlikely to be obstructed by other hardware as it passes through the scanner.
Good news for frequent travelers, but consider me suspicious: this is just too reasonable of a position for the TSA to take for me to believe it’ll be in place for long.
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
