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"Researchers from the University of Michigan have created a super-thin light detector that can pick up the entire infrared spectrum in addition to visible and ultraviolet light. The heat vision technology is made of graphene, which is considered to be the world's strongest material, and is small enough to fit on a contact lens.
Its developers say the technology could one day give people super-human vision and is particularly relevant for use by the military. Other, non-military uses, such as checking power distribution cables or search-and-rescue tasks are also possible.
A news release from the University team is to be found here, while a technical abstract is here. Unfortunately, the full technical paper is only viewable by payment or membership.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Kilo110 on Thursday March 20 2014, @03:12PM
"Its developers say the technology could one day give people super-human vision and is particularly relevant for use by the military"
Great, another way to help kill others. Exactly what this world needs.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by mhajicek on Thursday March 20 2014, @03:24PM
It seems that's what humans are best at.
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(Score: 3, Funny) by davester666 on Thursday March 20 2014, @05:45PM
Well, you only gain skill at something by practice, practice and more practice.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Tork on Thursday March 20 2014, @08:20PM
Yeah... yeah, we all saw Terminator 2. If you need karma, here are a few other cliches:
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"...life finds a way."
"...if it is just us... seems like an awful waste of space."
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(Score: 3, Funny) by ikanreed on Thursday March 20 2014, @05:23PM
Or more optimistically: a way to help make sure you're killing the right people, when you are in the military.
(Score: 2, Funny) by TK on Thursday March 20 2014, @06:47PM
Aim for the ones with body heat. Don't bother shooting the dead ones again.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by ikanreed on Thursday March 20 2014, @07:01PM
Well, I was thinking don't aim for the 2' 6" children that you can now distinguish from just motion in the distance, but, sure.
(Score: 3, Informative) by etherscythe on Thursday March 20 2014, @08:07PM
Too many video games? No, body heat takes some time to dissipate after the metabolic reactors shut down. Unless you're in a battle that goes on for many hours, telling a live body from a dead one is not going to be done by IR emissions.
Also, a lot of actual battles are happening in rather hot parts of the world right now. Thus, even a long-dead body may appear to be (or actually be) about the right temperature.
And finally, it's only listed as working into the mid-infrared, which " is known as thermal infrared, but it detects only temperatures somewhat above body temperature [wikipedia.org]", unlike Far Infrared.
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(Score: 3, Funny) by SlimmPickens on Friday March 21 2014, @08:15AM
Current IR cameras are already surprisingly good. I reckon these fancy graphene ones (with a lot of CPU behind it) would spot the surface temperate dropping in seconds.