Brits Unveil New High-Tech Security Camera

Device Can See Bombs, Weapons Through Clothes 80 Feet Away

(CBS)  A company in the United Kingdom has unveiled a high-tech camera capable of peering through clothing to detect weapons or explosives from 80 feet away.

CBS News correspondent Elizabeth Palmer was in London for the demonstration of the "T-5000" camera, originally developed for use in space to see through clouds of interstellar dust, or back on Earth to penetrate the ozone layer.

Once the scientists had perfected that and could see through the clouds, they thought, "why not clothes"?

And so, reports Palmer, they decided to develop the technology into a camera for security applications.

In the demonstration given Tuesday in London, a model tucked some mock-up explosives under his shirt. The camera clearly caught the object and portrayed it as a dark solid mass at the front of the man's body.

Many critics of x-ray security measures at airports have expressed concerns that passengers' privacy could be violated by screeners looking at naked people parading in front of a camera.

Palmer reports the image on the screen from the T-5000 was not that of a naked man at all, even though his clothing was transparent, but more like an infrared picture - with the explosive package clearly visible.

The camera's ability to screen people at a distance of up to 80 feet has drawn serious interest from security officials around the world, both civilian and military.

"A lot of security happens very close up. It could even be a physical
pat-down. It could be going through a metal detector gate. What we're excited about is something new," said Clive Beattie, CEO of ThruVision, the company that developed the T-5000.

The image comes up on a computer monitor in real time. It is formed not like x-rays are, by bombarding bodies with radiation, but by reading natural waves coming off the human body, so it's completely harmless.

The device comes in a package the size of a large trunk and takes just two people to move, so it is portable, reports Palmer.

An earlier version of the T-5000, a smaller indoor version, has already been sold. There is one in the financial center of London and one in another financial center in the Persian Gulf.

The new version is on the market already, and the technology is proven. The U.S. military has already expressed interest, and it is likely the device will appear in the United States soon.

[prinzowhales]

So, now they can find the "snoot bomb" on Hillary without the explosive sniffing pig?

[DaveGress]

Prinzowhales - Why so bitter panda bear? Relating this to Hillary is a stretch. Don''t cha think?

[prinzowhales]

degress12--Bitter? Did you see the episode of SOUTH PARK when the bomb sniffing pig located the "snoot bomb"?

[prinzowhales]

If you are interested in disasters coming out of military exercises...in this link, the sinking of the ESTONIA...and the jamming of its Mayday calls while a NATO fleet was an hour away and did nothing while hundreds died...nothing constructive that is.

The other cases in this article include the attacks on the London underground while an exercise was in progress for attacks on the very sites struck, and of course, the exercises ongoing as the planes struck the WTC on 9-11.

http://www.bollyn.info/home/articles/911/solving911ch3/


So, the UK has a new magic camera...how will it keep the UK, the US and Israel from carrying out their false flag attacks on their respective citizens?

[sistatee-2009]

If someone can get a belt full of high explosives 80 feet from the marvelous T-5000 camera, the next thing it "sees" will be itself being blown out into the parking lot.

[sevenveils]

The Britons are such voyeurs. They LOVE their "surveillance cameras. The next great Briton invention will be the Potty cam, recording and tallying and ticketing people who take too much toilet paper or misuse the water closet.

[prinzowhales]

We''ve beaten them to the Potty.cam...Schools have them to watch children...to protect them, of course.

http://ezinearticles.com/?surveillance:-hidden-bathroom-cameras&id=196379

And it was just a big coincidence that pictures of kids taking showeres ended up on the internet from a Tennessee school, if memory serves.

The Grand Old Perverts aren''t the only pederast scum running around the US.

[watcher269-2009]

The Joke in England is on Bush''s last visit - they used this camera while he was here and found out the reason for his WAR tendencies - Heeheehee - he''s got a little......

They''re still looking to see if they can find Cheney''s.....

[lochlan-2009]

Different wavelengths of energy can pass through different object densities and molecular structures. This is new to us? It''s an ultrasound, radar, call it what you want. I thought Sony was doing this by accident with their first night vision camcorders using infrared.

[tburzio]

Are there really 9-11 crackpots left? Even Bill Clinton told them to take a hike, and that''s saying something!

[Syndicate]

Old news. Saw this one weeks ago. Come on people do your jobs.

[gkc99]

Too bad they couldn''t have used one during the presidential debates when Bushit was wearing that wire on his back so his puppet handlers could tell him what to say.

[MekhongKurt]

It was observed that after people pass such a camera, the security personnel won''t even look at them because that''s not the way security personnel think.

Sorry to pop the bubble, but as a former security officer (and also a trainer at security and police academies), I can say that''s simply not true. In a situation involving multiple layers of security, it is true that once a person passes, say, the initial security layer, those officers expected the next layer to take over. But somewhere -- probably not at all obvious, if the supervisor has done a good job deploying the officers -- there is someone (probably several) who keep an eye on folks. All the time. Until they either board an aircraft or leave the building.

Hard as it is to believe, security does involve more than a bunch of toothless, half-blind, old men standing around an empty warehouse like a bunch of Barney Fifes.

[incog-nito]

This is all great and well. This may prevent a catastrophe in the air, but will it prevent a device from being detonated in a crowded airport terminal? Probably not.

[rushlimpdrug]

there is someone (probably several) who keep an eye on folks. All the time. Until they either board an aircraft or leave the building.

Hard as it is to believe, security does involve more than a bunch of toothless, half-blind, old men standing around an empty warehouse like a bunch of Barney Fifes.
Posted by MekhongKurt at 10:52 PM


You''re kidding right?
Airport sekuritee people are like checkers at the grocery store.
All they do is make sure everything goes through the belt and people don''t "beep" as they walk through the short "time tunnel".
The last time I was "picked" for a pat-down the kid told me he had to pat me down because his boss didn''t like him and wanted to see him working.
It was real funny.
I was soooo glad I was deemed safe to board.

[michellem99-2009]

DON''T GIVE BUSH ANY MORE IDEAS. I like the old America..I hate the new America and don''t tell me to get use to it. I can''t. This violates..I am 53. THIS IS THE DOWN FALL.