This could get interesting -- pics thru walls

[MM]

Future TERAHETZ Smartphones will able to take photos through Walls [Video]

 

 

 

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19 July, 2012 Technology

 

Scientists from the University of Texas are on the verge of developing a mobile technologycapable to see through walls and other solid objects. The technology combines the capturing of an unused "TERAHERTZ" range in the electromagnetic spectrum with a a new microchip capable of reproducing the data.

 

Thanks to the direct tapping in the terahertz range the future sensors will be much more simple than similar technology used nowadays, as it won't need the use of several lenses inside a device.

 

 

 

 

The new chip is based on the popular CMOS (Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor) technology, but when combined with terahertz waves it becomes possible for the sensor to capture images behind solid objects like walls and bodies.

 

The technology is very powerful as it offers limitless uses in construction, medicine, archaeology, document and money authentication and many more fields. The simplicity of the technology also makes it usable in mobile devices, which adds an interesting privacy concern to the matter.

[Montydog]

Just checking the date

[MM]

Just checking the date

How's it look?

[Siam Sam]

[voracious]

I guess at some point it'll look like this?

 

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(youtube attached above - in case you can't see it, looks like embedding is not allowed.)

 

... and beyond... this article implying that everyone can, at some point in the future, be stripped down to their netherparts in a cell phone camera, lol.

 

Imagine, cop cars driving down the neighborhood with monitors looking into the homes they're driving by.

 

Our Orwellian future is just about here.

Edited July 20, 2012 by voracious

[9cisco999]

Didn't Sony or another company come up with some X-ray claim for a camera some years ago?

[davebowk]

Didn't Sony or another company come up with some X-ray claim for a camera some years ago?

Yeah my Sony limited edition James Bond phone had an X-ray cam, still got it some where

[Guest Fatboyfat]

Did anyone atually buy those X-ray specs, advertised in the magazines/comics since the 50s?......... Just wondering what they actually did other than rip you off!

[jacko]

Did anyone atually buy those X-ray specs, advertised in the magazines/comics since the 50s?......... Just wondering what they actually did other than rip you off!

They ripped you off.

 

I think they distorted your vision so that anything you looked at had a darkened central area, and you were seeing the skeleton!