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FLIR One Thermal Imaging Camera for the iPhone is one very cool product. The $349 iPhone 5 and 5S add-on can see the heat signatures of people, places and things and, with proprietary software, converts the data into eye-popping, temperature-information-rich images that you can manipulate and share. You may struggle to explain why you’d need one, but there’s little question that you’ll probably want one.
FLIR System’s pricey technology represents another step in the continuing miniaturization of space-age technology. Like GPS systems before it, thermal imagers were once large, bulky, inordinately expensive and only for military and professionals. But with the invention of a roughly M&M-sized Lepton sensor, the sensing technology has finally made the leap to consumers. As one FLIR executive explained it, “We want to become the world’s sixth sense.” Read more...
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