Wired’s Danger Room is reporting that soldiers in Afghanistan will soon be equipped with a nifty little gadget that allows them to see through walls.
“TiaLinx, the company behind the Eagle sensors, told Defense News that the scanners can detect a person or animal 20 feet behind an 8-inch thick slab of concrete.”
I want one! This is really going to help my fledgling B&E business. (Though, seriously, don’t mention the B&E business to anyone. Ix-nay on the ime-cray alk-tay, OK?)
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UPDATE: Here’s another way to look through walls using augmented reality apps.
“The prototype uses two cameras: one that captures the driver’s view and a second that sees the scene behind a view-blocking wall,” continues New Scientist. “A computer takes the feed from the second camera and layers it on top of the images from the first so that the wall appears to be transparent. This makes it simple to glance ‘through’ a wall to see what’s going on behind it.”
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UPDATE II: And since the conceit of the joke in the first post is that criminals would probably find a see-through-walls-gadget pretty useful, here’s a post from someone considering the possible criminal applications of augment reality applications. The Case Against Augmented Reality.
