Is it safe to have your pnone, camera, gameboy,mp3 etc in your hand baggage when it is scanned at the airport

Question

Or will it wipe off your memory etc?

Answer 1

You'll be fine, but yeah, turn it off.  I know the GameBoy DSs have somewhat of a sleep mode, so if that's the kind of GameBoy, TURN IT OFF, not sleep, just OFF.

Answer 2

I do this all the time and have never had a problem.

Your stuff should be okay.

Answer 3

I think you need to be more worried that Border Patrol agents can seize any electronic devices and hold them for an indefinite amount of time.

"As part of border search policy, government agents are now authorized to seize electronic devices and inspect documents in them, the document states. The electronic devices might include laptops, cell phones, portable music players or storage devices such as portable hard drives."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20080801...

http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/200...

Answer 4

yes its perfectly safe. make sue its turned off tho !

Answer 5

yes they are all fine, me and my fiancee always carry on board (and therefore get scanned) his Xbox, the controllers, 2 laptops, 2 Ipods, PSP, and they are always fine and we travel with all these things 6times a year, so really they will be ok. the only thing we have found is that if you put your credit card through (even in your wallet) with a set of keys (or something else metallic) and you put them right next to each other (like you do when you bundle it all into the tray) the credit card stopped working. we don't know why but this happened 3times to us and twice to my dad and the bank agrees this is probably the most likely cause, weird but just a little warning in case it was this that cause the problem.