Lobster Eye X-Ray Inspection Device: real gadget, real name
- December 20th, 2007
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You’ll be seeing this at the airport soon, I think. Everyone was concerned when they started saying they would install X-ray backscatter scanners at the security checkpoints, and those things couldn’t move. Now we’ve got a similar (to laypeople) technology in a mobile, pointable form. Sounds great!
These things work by emitting X-rays and analyzing the reflections; they add “which is how lobsters see through murky waters.” Really now. If lobsters had that kind of technology, they would have taken over by now. In any case, these things probably cost half a million dollars each and as such will be limited to military use if they ever even make it off this company’s website, but feel free to get a little bit more paranoid anyway.
DavidC
2007-12-21 01:05:52
Hit their website, the PAN (personal area network) is crazy I tell ya!
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Al
2007-12-21 09:09:46
It’s like having Superman eyes ! In my childhood I’ve read many sf books but I never believed I would live long enough to actually see these things for real, gadgets that surround us today.
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Michael
2007-12-21 11:22:16
Should it also concern us that it looks like a vulcan death ray. That thing has to be emitting something harmful to my cancer free skin! Ill walk through the doorway thank you!
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Fardd
2007-12-21 11:35:06
hehehehe>>>>>
Funny
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