Superman Vision In The Near Future

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Friday, March 5, 2010, 11:44

X ray specs to enable you to look through walls ! You could have a superman like vision soon. It is just not about seeing through, but also to sense tiny motions like breathing or even a beating heart within things.

A system called the Prism 200, which is about the size of a briefcase has been developed to detect people through a brick wall, firing off pulses of ultrawide band radar and listening in turn for echo. This was announced in 2006 by British engineers at Cambridge Consultants. The ultrawide band radar can pass through building materials that are over 40 centimetres in thickness and can sense the activity up to 15 metres according to the reports of New Scientist.

However, the only drawback is that it is designed to only detect objects when they are in their move.

Scientists led by Erwin Biebl at the Technical University of Munich in Germany have come up with a radar sensor that can identify tiny motions like breathing, or even a beating heart through a shut door. This is another breakthrough to achieve X ray vision.

According to radio waves between 433 megahertz and 24 gigahertz can go through skin and bone but are partly reflected by the fatty layer around the muscles such as the heart.

The researchers were able to identify even the minute sub-centimetre changes in movement caused by a beating heart or the motion of the lungs with the aid of the Doppler effect AGENCIES