Nifty
Night vision coming to glasses, cell phones.
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April 29th, 2010 at 8:47 am
This is ok but I am waiting for thermal imaging.
April 29th, 2010 at 9:09 am
From the article:
<i?Night vision cell phones could be just the start. So said his team also plans to create cell phones that can see, and more importantly, measure heat as well.
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"This has a high potential to revolutionize night vision," said Yongli Gao, a professor at the University of Rochester. "It could be very useful in detecting heat loss from homes to reduce energy consumption…"
Which would be very useful to the green police would it not?
Hey, and you’ll be able to use your phone to check for heat signatures to see if your tenants are home when they don’t answer the door when you’re out collecting rent.
And those heat lamps you’re using to get a head start on your tomato plants before it’s warm enough to plant outside? Under thermal imaging, they look JUST like the heat lamps used to grow pot indoors. Be prepared for a crash at the door in the middle of the night.
The possibilities are just endless.
April 29th, 2010 at 9:09 am
Crap…sorry about the broken italics tag.
Stupid fingers.
April 29th, 2010 at 12:35 pm
@Sailorcurt some police departments have had thermal imaging cameras on their police cars for a while now.
I know this because when I was living in Plano, TX they added them to their cars.
April 29th, 2010 at 2:59 pm
Yes, but the Supreme Court ruled that a thermal imaging scan of a home without probable cause or a warrant is an unconstitutional search and any evidence gained as a result (or in a subsequent search that used the thermal imaging scan as “probable cause”) is inadmissible.
However, if everyone has such technology in their phones, how many “tips” will be called in to the police as a result? Tips from the public deemed credible by the police have been held to be valid probable cause for purposes of issuing a search warrant.
That’s my point. Concerned citizens calling in tips about suspected illegal behavior are not subject to the same probable cause rules that the police use of the same technology is.
I’m not saying I think the technology should be banned…heck, I’d like to have a decent set of NVGs and even a thermal imager…it would be cool if for no other reason…but I can definitely imagine a significant increase in bad police raids as an unintended consequence.
Oh…and a cheap night vision head’s up display in a car? Heck yea. It’d be great for deer avoidance if nothing else.
April 29th, 2010 at 3:04 pm
By the way…I find it mildly ironic that Uncle’s title for this post was “nifty”.
In the Navy we have a piece of shipboard equipment called the “NFTI” (pronounced “nifty”).
It stands for “Naval Firefighter’s Thermal Imager” and is basically nothing more than a hand-held thermal imager used to find the “hot spots” in smoke filled spaces when fighting shipboard fires.
Most civilian fire departments have variations of them as well, but probably call them something else.
Considering the direction the conversation went, I just thought that was kind of…well…nifty.