Your buddies may end up with cancer from all the x-rays if you point it at them, but seeing through stuff is cool!
The Handheld “Lobster-Eye” X-ray Inspection Device (LEXID) provides through – the – wall focusing and acquisition of backscattering photons from a hidden object irradiated by a cone beam from a low power X-ray generator. The X-ray optic focusing, combined with the X-ray detector significantly lowers the exposure dose, greatly enhancing image resolution. At the emitter side, the collimating optics increases flow of X-rays for deeper penetration through objects of interest, with the same X-ray tube.
Definitely cool.. except that the current administration would abuse such a device. I, on the other hand, would use it only in a responsible manner. 😉
Does it come with a lead suit?
Why would I want to see through Superman?
::-)
Coming to a town near you: Hulky urban street gangs wearing the newest “ray-jammin'” Chinese clothing woven in lead to protect from drive-by shootings of a radically different kind.
Well, this should liven up the tinfoil hat brigade. 🙂
Finally, the “X-Ray Glasses” ads in the back of comic books come true!
Backscattering low power X-rays. Turned into an image with a “lens”. What would the lens look like to another unit? Wouldn’t it seem reasonable that if some form of X-rays were “lensable” that optical distortions of many kinds would turn up in the images?
“Dunno what’s in there, Hank, but it turned my view screen into a psychodelic laser light show!”
http://www.as-e.com/products_solutions/zbv.asp
What I want is an X-ray mirror. Maybe those guys with the tinfoil hats are onto something.
7- ‘Finally, the “X-Ray Glasses” ads in the back of comic books come true!’
And here I thought I’d be the only one to think of this. But then I realized something. X-rays don’t stop at the skin level. Where as those “Xray specs” usually implied that they did. So for this misuse of technology to work, you would either need some form of sonic or infrared signal processing. Didn’t some firm already develop something like that for airport screeners?
May I getthe Lobstar-eye in Korea (or) China?