New 'Lobster Vision' Cam Sees Through Walls
A Torrance, California, company called Physical Optics Corporation is working on a camera based on lobster eyes that can see through walls. Called LEXID (Lobster-Eye X-ray Inspection Device). The LEXID can see through wood, concrete and even steel by beaming X-rays, then focusing on the reflection (rather than refraction) of objects -- which is how lobsters see through murky waters. The LEXID should be available for purchase by the Department of Homeland Security and other government agencies. I want one.
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What do the rays do to living flesh? This does not look like a good idea for the general public, but eventually it will reach it. Imagine somebody aiming it at your wife, who just concieved your child. Imagine the damage to the dna structure of a brand new embryo.
It probably wouldn't be very dangerous because the levels of radiation would be so low. The amount of light needed to give off to see a reflection is much lower than what's needed for conventional sight. Imagine how much light it would take to illuminate a couch in a mirror rather than a light-source, like a bulb. The amount of radiation in a lifetime of exposers would probably be less than one conventional x-ray. This is pretty neat, and safe, technology.
"Ow, my sperm!"
I feel sorry for the celebrities already... no more privacy!
Governmental agencies will love this. It will strip us of the last scattered bits of our privacy.
Also, if available to them Peeping Toms never had it so good.
It screams POLICE STATE.
WAKE UP AMERICA!!!
Never heard such a crap. Lobsters can't see through walls. Not even squid can do this!
I believe this is a canard.
BTW. Ted what stupid question "what do the rays do to living flesh?". Flesh is not made of stones and is not a wall, so it makes no sense to use the lobster gun on humans or animals. You should think before you post your silly concerns.
Regards,
Willy B., Texas
Willy B. Texas, thank you for posting your insulting comments to my remarks. You sound like a insecure individual who feels a need to insult others behind the veil of the internet. Do you talk to people like this in person? My question is not a silly one, but valid. Shrewd RawFeed-Readers know that x-rays and nuclear radiation can harm living flesh. Would you sit in a microwave all day? Of course not. With that in mind, how would you like to be in a hotel room while some government agency in the room next to yours blasts it's lobster-eye machine into your room for whatever purpose? Who knows what it will do to you - your living flesh? Communists did this with microwave machines in Eastern Europe in hotels to eavesdrop on western tourists making many from the west sick and causing cataracts and early cancer. Imagine what this see-through-walls machine could do to our health....so, next time slick willy please think before you post your mean-spirited comments. The Raw Feed is for edifying conversation and scintillating ideas, not for insults.
Willy,
Unlike lobsters this uses x-rays, which, as your doctor will tell you, will go through things that "normal" light will not. This is like a lobsters vision in that it uses reflection rather than refraction. Lobsters/people however use a different portion the the electromagnetic spectrum to see.
Any person who happened to be on the other side of the wall would also be him by the x-rays. If you don't believe x-rays are harmful then please do us all a favor and refuse the lead apron over your nuts next time.
fake
This lobster gun looks like it was made in the last century. For sure this is a fake! I agree with Willy, that this kind of technology wouldn't be build in such a toy/gun. I worked for the russian secret service over the last 20 years and know two things for sure:
1) We use 'x-ray sun glasses' that allow agents to look through visible light impenetrable materials (but not through walls/concrete) at least since 25 years. It truely works and persons don't perceive that the glasses are 'unusual'. But the technology behind that 'x-ray glasses' has nothing to do with x-ray not even with electromagnetism radiation. It uses light interferences technology and doesn't send out any danger radiation, microwaves or anything else. I guess your CIA/NSA secretive club uses something similar (to observe you). Think about it! Do you really believe they would harm you with carcinogen rays?
2) There are no hotels in Eastern Europe sending microwaves on 'western tourists'. And there never have been such methods in Eastern Europe and Russia. Asserting such things suggests the person saying is mentally retarded.
So, Ted and Joe, don't try to appear intellectual with your pseudo-scientific statements and concerns. First catch up on this subject, then start thinking.
If you would have done that before rather than claiming untrue stories, Willy probably wouldn't have affronted you. If the shoe fits, wear it!
Just my advise to all of you: Don't be so hidebound to believe every hoax your government wanna make you believe.
Russians aren't that evil ;-)
Sincerly
Vadim G.
okay. here we go. i see one thing that would be kinda bad about this. the guy using it would be bombarded by the x-rays that bounces back, but dont hit the gun.
and the thing about x-rays and raw flesh. (and skin and every other cells in your body) did you know that you actually get hit by 8x the amount of x-rays when your up in an airplane for 3 hours, than you would get by 8 seconds in the X-ray machines they use at the airport to scan your hand luggage ;) (i work at an airport;)
Man, what a funny forum!
It's long since I've seen somebody acting the big shot making himself look that silly.
Ted you are such slow-witted that you apparently didn't get the true meaning of Willy's comment.
I fully agree with Vadim and Ray. This toy cannot work, it obviously is a fake!
and Ted, who gives you the right to say what should be posted here?
Your psychologic diagnosis of Bill's personality tells more about yourself than about Bill.
And Fotzo is right, you didn't understand the comment of Bill. Otherwise you didn't react like this.
Let me try to explain: Starting a serious discussion on a non-serious topic (a fake report in this case) is ridiculous and tells a story about the one trying to be serious.
No offense meant! Bill certainly could have chosen other, more nifty words anyway ;-)
Russians have a bad track record. They mistreat their neighbors (think Estonia and Latvia). They kill journalists. And they dump paint in the Baltic rather than disposing of it properly (I saw this in St. Petersburg). I agree with the agatha bout the fakeness of the article, but I also agree with Ted that people on blogs should show the same manners they do face to face when they are online. No reason to insult anybody, whether it is for fun or not.
Vadim G. I have lived in Russia for many years. Russians are wonderfull people on a one-to-one basis. But the communist government in Russia was not so nice. Think of the millions of Russians who were murdered or sent to Siberia by the communist government. Even Putin said recently that Russians should remember the millions who Putin called "the spirit of Russia" who perished due to the communist government.
X-ray machines can see through metal, wood, etc.., pills can keep women from getting pregnant, machines can reach the moon. The idea of a machine that can "see" through a wall is not far fetched. Think of digital cameras that can record light on a silicon chip. FOTZO, thank you for calling me slow-witted. Ray is right about getting blasted in airplanes with radiation which many doctors confirm and agatha, why do you like defending somebody who is being rude? Thank you slxpluvs for your great reply and joe too. And Vadim, I agree, Russians aren't that evil, well sometimes my Russian mother-in-law seems that way, but I think she just misses her friends back in Vyborg.
oh, and one more thing Vadim, I was thinking in line of Romania and Ciacescu during their Communist era when I mentioned hotels, funny how you automatically assumed I meant Russia!
Ted, please read exactly, don't interpret. I said Eastern Europe and Russia ('and' means both, not one out of both. Therefore Russia was not meant as a substitute for Eastern Europe).
And I can tell you that behind all Eastern Europe governments during the cold war the KGB and therefore Russia pulled the strings. And as said, I worked for the KGB. I know what I speak of.
And I never said that everything in former times was perfect. Many bad things happened and many mistakes where made. But this not only supplies to the former Russian government (and Eastern European Governments) but also and at least in the same scale to the western and in the first place to the USA. Remember Vietnam and the useless application of Agent Orange breeding a whole generation of disabled children which still causes affliction. Useless to mention Nagasaki and Hiroshima, a useless testing of nuclear weapons which caused so much damage and misery. And so on and so on...
The list could be endless (just click the link on my name to get some more, if you want)
Even if this happened under the smokescreen of warefare: That have been crimes!
Don't get me wrong, I neither want to downplay what evil mistakes were made by former Russian powers nor do I want to put blame/shame on you, I just want to express that everybody should set one's own house in order before highlighting other peoples/governments mistakes.
And again, the x-ray story is a fake. It never happened and the x-ray gun never can work. One reason was given by Ray. The gun wouldn't use radiography like usual x-ray exposure but rather reflection with all the unwanted side-effects like diffusion and the resulting contamination by radiation.
By the way, Fotzo and Willy your comments are worthless and throw a bad light on yourself rather than on Ted's comments.
Веселое Рождество!
Vadim
I can make easily this kind of camera by my self. You need X ray tube to send x rays through a wall (for this you need electron tube with increased cathode voltage. Regular TV or oscilloscope tube works well). Then you need a lens for collecting reflecting X-rays. You can use a lead plate with a light blocked pinhole for the X-ray lens (similar technology was used on first photo cameras). Regular digital CCD camera can be used for capturing the X-ray picture through the X-ray pinhole lead lens.
Applaus!
Anonymous, you neglect the problem of diffusion and the danger of contamination come along with reflection technique.
In theory everything is possible and if you ignore all bad side-effects you might be able to realize it practically. But that's not the intelligent way, right?
Whether it is technically safe or not , my concern again is with the PRIVACY ISSUE. IF the government ONLY used surveillance systems like this against TRULY VIOLENT TERRORISTS, that's one thing. But, the PROBLEM is that governments and police CANNOT BE TRUSTED to stop there. They ALWAYS abuse their power and go BEYOND the violent crime issue, and start using these devices and systems to interfer in other areas, from people who use substances that are considered illicit, to using it to surveil people who have excessive parking tickets, to picking up private personal information on people that has nothing to do with violence, ie, "petty crimes" that are victimless and/or not a danger to society.
Now Big Brother won't have to make a tiny hole in the wall and insert a camera and transmitter. They can stand in plain sight and point this thing at the wall. Save a fortune in 1\8 drill bits.
I'd rather have the x-ray specs from the back of comic books that can see through your dress.
I just put couple minutes of my thoughts down to tell you how I'll been prototyping this kind X-ray camera and second Anonymous is requesting me to solve all other minor challenges too.
To get rid of diffraction problem, I'll been trying to rotate off-centered pinhole lens around to take multiple pictures of the target in different angle and using newest software technology to sharpen up the final picture.
There is a solution for every technical issue what you have. You just need to deal with a social and political issues.
Just came to my mind to build low power X-ray jammer. You need to have detector to sense present of extra X-ray radiation and then you just blast quickly counter X-rays to blind up intruders camera.
This is just quick idea, so don't bother me with your minor health or technical issues.
kgb...atomic bombs dropped on japan did cause a lot of suffering, but it actually saved many more lives than it destroyed,the alternative was a land-invasion of mainland japan,which would have resulted in mass casualties on both sides(including large japanese civilian suicides,such as what happened on the japanese held islands when U.S. Marines attacked,if you have ever read on the subject you will remember japanese women jumping off of cliffs with their children because their gov't had told them crazy stories about the USMC,similar to what the former USSR and USA goverments said/did to their own people during the cold war) far greater than the number of casualties that have resulted from the a-bombs that were used,also the U.S. rebuilt japan after the japanese surrender,which would probably not have happened or would have taken many decades longer considering the massive loss/destruction that would have occured after a land invasion
I love people who know nothing, but get scarred and over re-act to the simplest of stimuli. I know you think your walls are super dense, an awesome defence against all matter, but you are so very disgustingly wrong. It doesnt take super levels of radiation to penetrate a wall, and since the method is reflection, its even easier to read. Honestly though, I wouldnt worry about the amount of radiation you are going to get from the machine. Its funny how hollywood and the media have gotten you so scarred about it, and yet, you still dont educate yourself, and when in a James Bond flick they have a dual with control rods and fuel cells, you thinks nothing of it. ( the overpower reaction from pulling out the rod alone would have melted everything, not to mention the resultant pressure surge, or for that matter, the huge pressure drop from opening the primary....anyways, far to many flaws to list...)It a cool device, and it could help firefighters and police search for bodies in fires, and at the bottom of ponds and such. Way better than the NIFTI. Anyways, if you want to berate something you have no idea about, you should assuredly form your comments as an opinion, not as a statement of fact. Or, do whatever you want, its your image and you everyone will think is down syndromed
There are various forms of see through walls devices. I have a neighbor upstairs that uses their device so often, that they follow me around my apartment in every room I go into. Not sure of what brand they are using, but it gets annoying after a while. I can hear their wood squeaking footsteps everywhere i go in my apartment. I even wake up at different times and they still follow me around. Not sure if it is harmful, but I got a recent exam from my doctor and she thought I had a Vasectomy. I told her that I did not. She stated that I did not have one sperm showing on the test results. I have a daughter who was born years before I moved into this apartment - so it was not a sterile issue. I'm thinking on moving out, because the upstairs neighbors are making a joke of it now. Not placing blame, but curious to how healthy these devices really are. Thinking about hiring a detective - Nah.
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