CT scans, or computed tomography, let doctors study internal medical conditions in amazing detail. Instead of letting medicine have all the fun with that, the folks over at the Fraunhofer Institute have built a monstrous CT scanner to scan entire cars and even shipping containers.

It looks like you won't be able to hide anything anymore. The internals of a vehicle or shipping container would be completely exposed and laid bare to investigators all without opening them up. But that's not going to happen anytime soon though.

Current CT scan technology requires the use of a giant turntable to spin a vehicle, making them a little impractical as permanent border installations right now.

For now, it'll just be used to look at crash test vehicles. The footage of the actual collision can give researchers a lot of data about how a vehicle performs and how its inside gets wrecked up. [Fraunhofer Institute]