Sony had it in a $500 camcorder for a few months before being forced to take it off the market because people were using it to film their neighbors screwing... through their neighbor's walls...
That's a myth actually. You can't use IR to see anything you can't see with vis (the only difference is that your body glows in the IR, not in the vis, so if you're in a dark room you can see someone with an IR camera, but only if you could have seen them normally if there was enough light)
IR can't penetrate walls or even stuff like glass. To take an IR spectra of a chemical (I'm a chemist) you have to put it in a salt container because IR doesn't go through lab glassware.
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Sony had it in a $500 camcorder for a few months before being forced to take it off the market because people were using it to film their neighbors screwing... through their neighbor's walls...
That's a myth actually. You can't use IR to see anything you can't see with vis (the only difference is that your body glows in the IR, not in the vis, so if you're in a dark room you can see someone with an IR camera, but only if you could have seen them normally if there was enough light) IR can't penetrate walls or even stuff like glass. To take an IR spectra of a chemical (I'm a chemist) you have to put it in a salt container because IR doesn't go through lab glassware.