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by Mike Masnick

Wed, Jun 18th 2003 8:51am





Seeing Through Walls

from the who-needs-walls? dept

dsg writes in with a link to this story about a company that has built a device to "see through walls". It's main purpose is to help rescuers in disaster zones find people who are buried under rubble. It's basically a small radar system that can detect minute movements. Apparently, the device came about as a result of other research being done on putting radars on cars to prevent collisions. Both applications sound pretty useful to me.

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    Ummm... yeah... it's called ultrawideband

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    Anonymous Coward, Jun 18th, 2003 @ 9:42am

    Yeah, hi, 1999 called - they want their article back! This technology is actually better known as ultrawideband (UWB), and it's been around for a while. Just a friendley reminder...

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    Re: Ummm... yeah... it's called ultrawideband

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    Mike (profile), Jun 18th, 2003 @ 9:48am

    While your tone could be friendlier, you do have a good point. We've written about UWB plenty of times before, and I should have been a bit more skeptical on this one. It's unclear if the technology they're using is actually UWB or something else. UWB has certainly had some issues in adoption and hasn't really "been around for a while" in any working sense. Still, there are other, similar technologies out there to the one mentioned in this article.

    Thanks.

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    UWB Application

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    STARBLASTER, Jan 16th, 2004 @ 8:54pm

    What about using this 'seeing' aspect to look for termites. This is a billion dollar industry.
    The privacy aspect would be moot because you would only need limited range ( the girl in the shower would be safe ).

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