See through walls only...

June 19, 2003

See through walls only...

Cool! The Register tells about Researchers that built a proof-of-concept gadget to see through walls - using low-frequency radar they can actually plot sort of a high-level location information about objects behind up to 25 cm walls...

So sorry, no "look-through-your-clothes" glasses available - still dreaming....

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Look through clothes glasses have existed from some time, however they use UV lighting (which penetrates most clothing) rather than any far-out X-Ray goggles.
Most devices taking advantage of the tech are ~£2,000 for personal usage.

Posted by Wesley Mason at June 19, 2003 05:34 PM

dou you know any report/review links for x-ray googles ?

Posted by ccc at June 19, 2003 06:23 PM

I remember reading a few reviews of the tech a while ago, but I can't find many, I found a few sellers offering them. It seems my memory wasn't quite in tact, they use IR and parts of the visible spectrum to reflect images from under clothing (filtering out saturated light):
http://www.advanced-intelligence.com/goggles.html
http://www.gadgetmasters.com/cgi-bin/azx/more.pl?ID=466&SID=1&PAGE=PRODUCT

Posted by Wesley Mason at June 21, 2003 01:09 PM