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jagman
20th October 2011, 23:43
http://www8.pcmag.com/media/images/321873-x-ray-vision.jpg?thumb=y
If you could have any comic book-style super power, what would it be? Would you read minds? Have the ability to fly? Or would you choose invisibility?
Thanks to researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Lincoln Laboratory, the power of x-ray vision is becoming a reality. A team has created a radar system that allows humans to see through walls.
Generally, 99 percent of radar waves bounce off concrete walls. Out of the one percent that aren’t blocked, another 99 percent don’t make it back through.
The MIT team, led by researchers John Peabody and Gregory Charvat used S-band radar waves, which are similar in wavelength to a Wi-Fi signal, meaning they’re fairly short. While that length means more signals lost, the team developed an amplifier device
to push the radars through walls that can work at a range of up to 60 feet away from the wall. The device is comprised of various antennas organized in two rows: eight on the top row that work as receivers and 13 on the bottom that are transmitters.
However, even with amplifiers, a wall made of any solid material will show up as the brightest spot. To amend this, the team used an analog crystal filter to remove the wall from the image that shows up in the receiver.
At about eight and a half feet long, Charvat and Peabody envision the device deployed in urban combat situations.
“[The size], we believe, is a sweet spot because we think it would be mounted on a vehicle of some kind,” Charvat said.
The system provides real-time video at 10.8 frames per second and can detect slight movement, but not objects that are still, such as furniture.
“If you’re in a high-risk combat situation, you don’t want one image every 20 minuytes, and you don’t want to have to stand right next to a potentially dangerous building,” Charvat also said.
To see the device in action, check out the video below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5xmo7iJ7KA&feature=player_embedded

Siegfried The 7
21st October 2011, 01:05
If Im not mistaken, I heard that there was technology that law enforcement(in Florida I believe) were planning to acquire that would allow them to see through walls.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/10/18/defense-cuts-force-contractors-to-look-to-sell-spy-tech-to-cops-others.html

http://www.news4jax.com/news/26654216/detail.html

http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/01/27/2038287/sen-bill-nelson-wants-better-equipment.html

No surprise given that we usually hear about tech LONG after its been implemented or something a hundred times better/more powerful is in use.

RMorgan
21st October 2011, 01:12
It´s really really said to see such enthusiastic young men using their mind for something that, in the end, will be used to kill people.

That´s one of the reasons they don´t teach too much ethics in any science school.

99% of all successful tech experiments from important universities are later used by military, to kill people.

jagman
21st October 2011, 01:29
It´s really really said to see such enthusiastic young men using their mind for something that, in the end, will be used to kill people.

That´s one of the reasons they don´t teach too much ethics in any science school.

99% of all successful tech experiments from important universities are later used by military, to kill people.

Your absolutely Right! But there could be some great applications for this tech!
Im sure the military is already trying to outfit this tech to its snipers and urban combat commandos !

Aryslan
21st October 2011, 02:01
Why does real life tech usually end up cooler than what I can use in a video game? :( Seriously, I've watched some of the show Future Weapons, and I'd love to have some of the guns they demo in a first person shooter, haha. I find it amusing that the real life tech is actually more innovative than what I find in the virtual world.

Carmody
21st October 2011, 02:05
Highly Intelligent man from North Bay develops device that Sees Through Walls

http://www.baytoday.ca/content/news/details.asp?c=6657


Makes MIT look like a joke.

Note the MIT connection.

They can't even steal properly.

Troy did indeed fix the 'death ray' effects, in a newer and different version of the device.

That is detailed in a different article from the same newspaper.

These articles on new inventions -- happen all the time. Note these sort of inventions and discoveries always seem to occur, regarding write ups..in small regional newspapers. The kind outside of corporate control.

That should tell you everything you need to know.

As well, in astral form, walls and distance mean nothing to me.

Fellow Aspirant
25th October 2011, 05:00
Although the two devices - Troy Hurtubise's "Angel Light" and this one by the MIT researchers, sound very similar in what they allow operators to do, they do not operate in the same way. The MIT guys use radar waves and can only "see" the image on a video screen as a blotchy blur of coloured energy, rather like an infrared image, while the Angel Light allowed Hurtubise to see the objects on the other side of the wall directly, without the need for a video screen. He even claims to be have been able to read a licence plate on a car in the driveway. Why the MIT guys used such a different way to get such an inferior result is a mystery, especially as they seem to be eager to weaponize their creation. Hurtubise's Angel Light was lethal, and scared him to the point that he dismantled it. Something's missing in this story.