SmoothIsFast

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If you work with L & Ka band then you should know that RF is not cumulative in the same way ionizing radiation is. Yes it causes cataracts and low sperm count at high enough power levels, but it causes these due to local heating, eyes and testicles just happen to be the two most sensitive organs to heat. If you don't get a high enough dose to cause damage immediately, you didn't do any damage, and further low doses will not cause a cumulative effect.

The power emitted by mm wave scanners in airports is on the order of milliwatts, not close to enough to cause those issues.

All that said, scanners which expose passengers as if they were undressed, even if it is to a person working in a back room somewhere to flag threats, they are absolutely an over reach and metal detectors and explosive detection swabbing is more than sufficient.

It will likely be a combination of both. As prices increase, new fabs become more financially lucrative and viable. Demand will also fall as the bubble bursts, but likely will not go back to that it was either.

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Didn't Google try this and canned the project after nobody wanted to wear them or be recorded all the time?