New Radar Sees Through Walls

artemis67 writes "A small Israeli company has developed a radar system that uses ultra-wideband technology to produce three-dimensional pictures of the space behind a wall from a distance of up to 20 meters. The pictures, which reportedly resemble those produced by ultrasound, are relatively high-resolution and are produced in real time. Wow, it sounds like the potential benefits of this device are huge, saving lives of soldiers, firemen, or police; the potential for privacy invasion, however, is similarly large."

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the plan

[The Clockwork Troll]

The plan is to install these on the other side of the "security fence" so Palestinians can watch as Israelis make "n'ya n'ya" faces at them.

Used for "saving lives"?

[PhysicsGenius]

Or used for pre-emptively assassinating political opposition leaders? You make the call, but remember it was in Israel.

Re:Used for "saving lives"?

[dave420]

No - it's pretty accurate. If by "lives" you mean "kids" and if by "saving" you mean "sending a bulldozer to repeatedly run over"

It would be funny if it weren't so freakin' horrible. Ladies and gentlemen - your tax dollars at work.

Re:Used for "saving lives"?

[delaine1975]

Yes, it would be nice if Isreali soldiers didn't "need" to destroy the homes of civilians to catch alleged terrorists.

wow

[Anonymous Coward]

Isreal is hellbent on bettering the nazi record.
Good to hear they took the lessons to heart.

Re:wow

[Anonymous Coward]

Too bad the nazi's didnt get em all.

Re:Nobody cares about civil rights or liberty anym

[dave420]

The US army is only good at blowing the crap out of something, not sneaking around and looking without being seen. Look at Iraq - if ever a theatre demanded tact and subtlety, this was it. How did they act? Terribly. Tens of thousands of innocent lives lost, and all that was gained was tunrning a country on its head, endangering everyone in the process.

Israel's ethnic cleansing

[Anonymous Coward]

Why am I not surprised this came out of Israel? The whole country revolves around pushing people off their land, then when they have the nerve to fight back they do their own version of ethnic cleansing. Israel has become a brutally racist police state.

Re:rejected

[British]

wonder why these guys did not participate in the DARPA Grand Challenge?

Disqualified for running over Palestenians.

wow

[Anonymous Coward]

this makes it even easier (and safer) to harass palestinian women and children!

Re:Yes, it may be an invasion of privacy

[hyperstation]

Only people with something to hide have walls, sir!

Oh lord.

[pyth]

When it comes to privacy issues, nerds become the hugest fucking luddites in the world. WTF, are you all criminals or something?

I suppose their idea of privacy rights is to ban video cameras because they can be used to SEE THROUGH GLASS.

If you want privacy, it is YOUR job to keep up with the times. If you're not a criminal, you don't need privacy anyway!

Re:SCOTUS ruled about the use of this sort of tech

[pyth]

Huh. So they're not allowed to use their EYES to look through GLASS?

This is just plain technophobia. The only reason the police are allowed to use video cameras and eyeballs is that they are everyday technology.

LUDDITES RULE THE U.S.A.

Palestinians Rejoice!

[meehawl]

Oh goody. This might mean that the Israeli Defence Forces mightn't need to bulldoze quite so many Palestinian homes, offices, and schools looking for "tunnels" and "caches" and "terrorists".