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Strip search: camera that sees through clothes from 80ft away
Times Online UK ^
| 3/9/08
| Jonathan Leake
Posted on 03/09/2008 4:33:28 PM PDT by xtinct
A CAMERA that can see through people’s clothing at distances of up to 80ft has been developed to help detect weapons, drugs and explosives.
The camera could be deployed in railway stations, shopping centres and other public spaces.
Although it can see objects under clothes, its designers say the images do not show anatomical details. However, it is likely to increase fears that Britain has become a surveillance society.
The new technology, known as the T5000 system, has attracted interest from police forces, train companies and airport operators as well as government agencies.
It has been developed by ThruVision, an Oxfordshire-based company spun out from the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, one of the government’s leading physics research centres.
It was designed for use in spacecraft and astronomy but researchers soon realised that cameras capable of seeing through clouds of cosmic dust could also see through clothing. This week the camera will be displayed at the Home Office scientific development branch’s annual exhibition, Britain’s premier showcase for security equipment, to be held on an RAF airbase in Buckinghamshire.
ThruVision already offers a smaller system designed for office foyers that can scan through clothing at a range of 30ft-40ft.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: camera; science; stripsearch; surveillance; technology
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Great idea ???? Sheesh... doesn't Uncle Pervy have enough toys????
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posted on
03/09/2008 4:33:29 PM PDT
by
xtinct
To: xtinct
...the images do not show anatomical details....
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posted on
03/09/2008 4:34:45 PM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
To: xtinct
Sheesh... doesn't Uncle Pervy have enough toys???? ROTFLOL! But if it's a gov't perv, it's ok, right? ; )
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posted on
03/09/2008 4:35:56 PM PDT
by
Tamar1973
(Riding the Korean Wave, one recipe at a time http://www.youtube.com/Tamar1973)
To: xtinct
Those poor guys. If they ever scan me, they’ll never feel like real men again.
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posted on
03/09/2008 4:36:38 PM PDT
by
Richard Kimball
(Sure, they'd love to kill me, as long as they can do it without admitting I exist)
To: xtinct
Already been done. ;)
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posted on
03/09/2008 4:36:44 PM PDT
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
To: xtinct
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posted on
03/09/2008 4:36:58 PM PDT
by
Bobalu
(I guess I see'd that varmint for the last time....)
To: xtinct
I can break a camera like that without even trying.
To: xtinct
They should have saved some money and bought some of these...
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posted on
03/09/2008 4:37:35 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: SandRat; Lil'freeper; Bender2
...the images do not show anatomical details.... My guess is that size matters though. Being Irish, I'm never embarrassed to demonstrate my superior heritage. *wink*
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posted on
03/09/2008 4:38:13 PM PDT
by
big'ol_freeper
("...millions hate what they mistakenly think that the Catholic Church is." ~ Archbishop Fulton Sheen)
To: Army Air Corps
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posted on
03/09/2008 4:39:41 PM PDT
by
xtinct
(I was the next door neighbor kid's imaginary friend.)
To: xtinct
RadGuard Lead-Lined Underwear
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posted on
03/09/2008 4:39:57 PM PDT
by
BGHater
($2300 is the limit of your Free Speech.)
To: BGHater
roflmao ... too funny !!!!
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posted on
03/09/2008 4:40:52 PM PDT
by
xtinct
(I was the next door neighbor kid's imaginary friend.)
To: BGHater; xtinct
RadGuard Lead-Lined Underwear ...to keep Superman from checking out your package???
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posted on
03/09/2008 4:44:41 PM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
To: Richard Kimball
To: xtinct
doesn't Uncle Pervy have enough toys????And a government paycheck!?!?!
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posted on
03/09/2008 4:48:35 PM PDT
by
GVnana
("They're still analyzing the first guy. What do I have to worry about?" - GWB)
To: xtinct; martin_fierro; JRios1968; EveningStar; FredHead47; pax_et_bonum
Will they use these cameras on Cindy Crawford and Salma Hayek? And how is a camera that can detect drugs through clothes supposed to NOT reveal private anatomical contours?
To: xtinct
Do you think the muslims will take this sitting down? They’ll scream to the rafters, their modest women and all.
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posted on
03/09/2008 4:49:20 PM PDT
by
processing please hold
( "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.")
To: BenLurkin
To: xtinct
Two thoughts:
1) One more reason to always wear clean undies;
2) the T5000 system
If it was the T101 from CyberDyne Systems, we'd be in real trouble.
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posted on
03/09/2008 5:07:05 PM PDT
by
IronJack
(=)
To: xtinct
No anatomical details??? What fun is that?
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posted on
03/09/2008 5:11:52 PM PDT
by
Past Your Eyes
(Bill Clinton: Life Member of the Liars' Club.)
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