Bring Out Your Inner Superhero With This Thermal Imaging Camera
The Flir One, a dual-camera dongle that attaches to your phone, puts military-grade technology in your pocket.
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The human eye can only see so much. Infrared vision—which shows your surroundings based on temperature—allows you to see in Predator-like rainbow hues. Though it is a cool technology, it is not new: Primitive night vision binoculars, after all, were one of the Allies’ great, secret weapons of World War II.
Flir, a Wilsonville, Ore.-based leader in the thermal imaging business since 1978, has provided essential gear to many high-stakes operations since then. When a space capsule docks with the International Space Station, Flir cameras are among its suite of tools that make the delicate operation possible. And it was a large, powerful Flir thermal camera that the Boston Police Department used to find one of the marathon bombers, thanks to his body heat glowing ghost-white as he hid beneath a tarp covering a trailered boat.