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Terahertz Imagery Progresses
ke4roh writes "Since Slashdot last discussed
terahertz imaging, the European Space Agency's Star Tiger project has
taken terahertz images of a human hand.
Some of the pictures
show just how useful the imagery might be for peering through walls and such - one of the images is through a 15mm pad of paper." The EE Times has another story.
I predict the #1 use for this technology will eventually be peeking through woman's clothes.
-insert a witty something-
No more wishing for x-ray vision. Woman's locker room here I come!
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these taking pictures of Natalie Portman.
"x-ray goggles" based on REAL SCIENCE!!!!!
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See what is going on at your neighbors house!
Protect yourself from armed muggers!
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In Alias the terahertz camera could see thru 30 meters of earth.
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Airport screening. This reminds me of the airport in Total Recall where Arnold had a gun. Very cool. 4th Amendment notwithstanding.
that's cool. What sort of astrnomy can be done with this?
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Snip of some info from the tiger page:
Terahertz imaging can be achieved by observing the natural terahertz waves emitted by pretty much everything. Unlike light, terahertz waves are able to propagate through cloud and smoke providing a powerful advantage for certain remote sensing measurements. From a practical aspect they are also able to pass through windows, paper, clothing and in certain instances even walls.
Sounds like thermal imaging on steroids. Eventually, would this become the standard military surveillance method that could be used on a UAV in enemy or (god forbid) domestic airspace?
What the porn industry can do with this! No more fake celbrity nude photos!!
These things have been available in comic books for years.
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As if the black car sitting outside my house wasn't enough, now I have to deal with this kind of government surveillance too!? At least now I know where they got the pictures of my Anti RIAA boxers from...
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until you can make out a nipple...
According to the article, the frequencies are used only certain moths. It also talks about using the frequency to carry terabit wireless networks...
Does this mean that that I could use the wireless network to create swarm of attack moths that can see through reams of paper.
I can finally overtake the pointy haired boss and rule the office!
A: "Wanna TeraHertz Donut?"
B: "Sure!"
A Hits B
B: "Ow!"
A: "TeraHertz, Donut?"
You are not the customer.
What kind of engineering is required to make the 'lead underwear' required to block these. Certainly not a simple tinfoil hat.
Where are those pictures ;-)? Weren't there some night-vision camera's that also did that?
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or does the repeated use of the "St(PICTURE OF A STAR)rTiger" logo on the pictures page make the whole thing look considerably less like a professional research project?
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Just wait, by tomorrow morning Apple will have an article on their webpage about the "Terahertz Myth." Soon afterwards AMD will release the Athlon XP 1100000+, but it will really run at 700000 Mhz.
Posted from Mac OS X.
Now I have to deal with wallhackers outside of Counter Strike.
An image of a hand in the 430-750 trillion Hz range shows remarkably more clarity than the new technology!
The picture of the hand, at least, was taken using just the rays the hand emits naturally.
A device that can be used to see through walls has potential anti-terrorism uses, and if tweaked it could probably be used as a replacement for the mildly-dangerous xray technology. Also being able to be used for communications, this is a step in the right direction for research into radio technologys.
Imagine the X10 camera ads this will bring forth...
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From the article:
Everything gives off terahertz radiation naturally, and like radio waves -- but unlike heat or light -- the waves can pass through some solid objects.
Light waves can't pass through solid objects? Except, you know, glass. Or clear plastic. Visible light can't pass through things that are opaque, moron. That's why they invented the damn word in the first place.
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And from what I understand from the article, TeraHertz radiation is something that objects emmit naturally. So I'd assume devices using this technique would not be exposing you to radiation, as X-rays do.
Security checkpoints might adopt this also. Airports currently use x-rays which can be damaging to high speed film and has other negative issues also. The article mentioned that certain chemical characteristics could also be gleaned from an imaging system such as this, since the object itself (and the chemicals it contains) is the thing emmitting the radiation. Possibilities include detecting explosives and drugs.
Also, just as a side note, the pictures of a human body through clothing referred to in the article are of some fat guy with flabby tits. View at your own risk.
MacGyver built a teraherz camera out of a banana peel and a rubber band.
It seems like it would be a much easier and cheaper way of producing the Thz waveguide antennae.
Well don't forget. For every action there's a reaction. I predict lead undies will become popular.
Thats like Intel stating they broke the Gigahertz barrier when they reached 300 MHz processor speeds (or rather 0.3GHz).
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Surprisingly, the Supreme Court ruled last year -- in an opinion written by Scalia (conservative) and joined by Souter (moderate) and Thomas (conservative), as well as Ginsburg and Breyer (both liberal) -- that the use of thermal imaging to detect marijuana grow lamps inside a house was illegal: It looks to me like terahertz imaging would fall under this ruling, and thus be illegal without a warrant. For now, anyway...
I work for an observatory that uses these wavelengths to do astronomy. At these wavelengths you're mostly looking at the cold material in the universe --- stuff like interstellar gas, dust, and so on.
This post is strictly my own opinion and not necessarily that of my employer.
I believe they failed to metion infrared, because infrared is usually considered part of the light spectrum, hence the terms "infrared light" and "ultra-violet light".
Do these waves travel faster than 2.4 GHz waves? That would be news - I was under the impression that all waves traveled at the same speed.
There's a small company in Ann Arbor, Michigan that has a commercial terahertz imaging device called the T-Ray 2000. Check it out. http://www.picometrix.com/t-ray/index.html