Hasta La Ideas

Lisa Dolev has a Ph.D in Biomedical Engineering, not Industrial Design. But that didn’t stop her, immediately after the 2004 train bombings happened in Madrid, from producing the sketch you see below:

Dolev, who formerly worked as “an active participant in counter-suicide bomber initiatives led by DARPA,” was shaken by the train bombing footage. She realized that train stations, public stadiums, and other areas where masses of citizens converge would become steady terrorist targets, yet these venues would not be able to afford the screening measures that airports can. So she set out to design a more efficient, lower-cost security screening system, combining elements of a grocery store self-checkout set-up with some straightforward, universally-understood design principles (green means go, red means stop, etc.). She then founded California-based Qylur Security Systems, Inc. to develop her invention, dubbed the Qylatron Entry Experience Solution. Here’s how it works:

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