Canadian inventor discovers x-ray vision, maybe
posted January 20th 2005 11:30AM
Canadian inventor Troy Hurtubise, who some of you may know as the creator of the
grizzly bear-proof suit and fire-resistant paste, claims
to have built a device that sees through walls. Doc Brown-style, Hurtubise says he saw the entire device, called
the Angel Light, in a dream and built it without any blueprints or schematics. He later showed the device to
representatives from the French government who were so impressed they gave him $40,000 on the spot to finish it.
After talking to some contacts at MIT, he also discovered that the device could also detect stealth material and cause
electronic devices to stop working (or, so he says). And, like any good mad scientist, he tested the device on
himself. Sticking his hand in front of it, he claims to have been able to see muscles and blood vessels, but now
says he has no feeling in a finger on that hand. Ah, the perils of science.
[Via BoingBoing]
Classic. It's almost too easy. France......Canada........
I love how unamed scientists from the USA (MIT) are used to give it credibility.
I'm sure JREF will be all over this.
JP
and the french government paid this guy $40k for his dream invention?! nutcase
I live in the same city as Troy! He's almost a local joke, as he's made some pretty claims in the local newspaper about being followed and his lab is bugged by the FBI and such. That was a few years ago.
I work at a local electronics store and he always comes in buying parts and stuff. I remember when he came in looking for "industrial grade laser pointers" because he is going to "shoot a sattelite out of the sky" . Apparently this is what he was talking about.
BTW...his wife works at KFC.
Call me crazy (or him) but lets say you can see through your skin with this device, and browse your veins and muscles, why would it stop there? Why wouldnt you just see right through to the floor? Come on Shelly!
this is hilarious. did he sell his sterilization/impotency device for $40k? or did he make this up?
I don't care if people think he is funny, I don't care if people think he is crazy the paste stuff seems to work and the suit just suffers from crap marketing.
This sounds nuts though.
From the picture, it looks more like a commercial about a product that improves male "adequacy"
You could poke an eye out with that thing! It looks like a Giant Frickin' Laser! Dr. Evil would be proud
I love this guy... We need to put him on retainer, because he is so fucking nuts and brilliant.
I'm happy for Troy, he's gone from being merely eccentric to blissfully, ragingly crazy. Shine on you crazy, crazy diamond!
Of course it goes without saying that all his "secret" MIT contacts and tales of government involvement exist only in his technicolor imagination.
"And if I stand just so behind my amazing device, it looks incredibly sexual..."
It sounds like cold fusion and water powered cars. Soon well hear stories about how a secret government agency closed his lab or how he sold this invention to an obscure company. Anyway, keep working!
OOH! OOH! Can we see through his pants?!?!?
He should power it with one of these: http://www.josephnewman.com/
I love these "misunderstood geniuses" who get annoyed when people don't believe that they can work outside of the realm of physics
For those not keeping score, this man now has an indestructable suit of armor and a death ray. He is only one diabolical plot away from being an evil genius.
It's shocking for me to read on a gadget tech site all these naysayers...
Listen, if you would go back in time 200 years ago with a huge flat plama screen, a couple of cell phones, commerical jet liners, etc...people would have thought you were the devil or an alien or they would just throw you in the fire pit and deem you a witch...
Times change, so does technology. Physics is there to be tinkered with...just becuase you cant "see" it or imagine it doesn't mean that it isn't there just because your mind is too small to "see" it...
Even if this turns out to be a hoax, don't be suprised if in 100 years there are other inventions that are far more radical than this!
LIP
Stay tuned for "DIY Island Fortress!" coming soon.
From the way he is standing, it looks like he'll lose feeling in his other finger.
I want one! Better than natural male enhancement. And it can also cook my neighbour's dog from a safe distance. And the other neighbour's kids would have to go too. Can I have philip's green laser too??? Please???
Uhh, how is this differnt from x-rays? You know those magical things which see through your skin at the dentist and were formerly used in shoe stores to see your foot in the shoe.
If I rediscovery 19th century inventions do I get on engadget too?
I wonder if he has skin cancer now?
Kids, kids - clearly he's aligning the Oscillation Overthruster.
:)
If that thing doesn't have an iPod dock it'll never sell - not even to the French.
stop hating. i believe. also, octopus' can shapeshift and change their colour and texture. this might be the same tech.
In response to #22's comment, I also believe octopi can shapeshift and change their colour and texture. It is a proven fact. Yet there are claims to this matter that are just completely faudulent and stirred up from gung ho computer nerds imaginations. Take this movie for example: http://www.cephbase.utmb.edu/viddb/vidsrch3.cfm?ID=132
To the naked eye it is impressive, but to anybody with a brain, it is obvious it's entirely not possible. Internet obsessives and octopi enthusiests please give up your false hope.
And Troy Hurtobise is real.
I don't know. After reading the full article, I think we need to send those Mythbuster guys over to his house to check it out. I like were he had some contacts and what exactly would the industrial laser pointers really achieve in that thing? And the Hyde effect cracked me up. If I took apart a microwave oven and stood too close to it when I turned it on it would probably damage me too. Very odd, just smells too fishy.
"Whats that water mellon for?"
"I'll tell you later"
A: "Dr. Banzai is using a laser to vaporize a pineal tumor without damaging the parthogenital plate. A subcutaneous microphone will allow the patient to transmit verbal instructions to his own brain."
B: "Like, 'raise my left arm'?"
A: "Or "throw the harpoon." People are gonna come from all over. This boy's an Eskimo!"
I agree with Jim & Dave (21, 26): Troy Hurtubise is clearly just an alias for Lord John Whorfin.
Either that or he just invented the 'pro-jec-tor' and has been showing people a movie of what's on the other side of a wall. (I mean, he must have shown them SOMETHING to get a write-up, right? Even in a local paper?)
Oh, this might also be a good time to let folks know about "The seven signs of bogus science":
http://chronicle.com/free/v49/i21/21b02001.htm
He seems to fit: 1, 4, 6, and 7.
whoa whoa whoa... back up! octopus can shape shift and turn trasparent!? and camoflauge themselves by changing skin pigmentation instantly?! since when!?
Its interesting that none of the gallery photos show it operating, and thats its "dismantled" now. Anyone wanna bet that when its reassembled it stops working?
Did anyone think of this - he claims to have looked "through" his hand, yet the device is 8 ft long. So how was he looking through one end with his hand on the other side?
I still love this guy though. He's so blantantly crazy.
Wow, I'm amazed at what skeptics will say these days...
Troy is entirely credible, and his inventions have been very revolutionary, he's won Nobel prize(s), and he's been on several tv specials, including ones on the Discovery Channel. He has invented such things as Firepaste, Blastsheilds(that can take military grade explosions), armor that can withstand a bear and a car...
I'm not supprised he's built something like this, without much knoledge of the technology... thats how he does things.
"I havent got a clue how it works, I havent got a clue why it works."
Most of his inventions he makes by tinkering with what other people start to make.
This technology is not that hard to beleive...
Go search Google for "Invisibility Cloak", and just see what the Japanese have invented.XD
If you were from the 1800s, you certainly wouldn't beleive computers, or fast cars, or modern airplanes, or most of the stuff we take for granted these days... >_>
Give him a chance, soon there will be another artical about his demo he has planned for the device. ^_~
If you want info on his credibility, search for his name, and see all the things he's done! I have a link to a forum, where people are posting info on his credibility... if that helps... >_>
http://www.eyesonff.com/forums/showthread.php?t=55353
I'd rather live in a world where new technology redefines the way we think about everything, than a world where everyone dwells on the old ways...
(oh and yeti, you obviously dont live near him =P)
(in response to #34) Sorry to break it to you man, but the dude in the Japanese 'Invisibilty Cloak' had a second camera behind him. Thats where the whole idea is from: two cameras combining images. If you walked past him, it would just be someone standing there in a regular suit.
And as for the x-ray vision, good on Troy for trying, but I wont believe it until I see it.
But then again, its crazy guys like him that keep the world moving forward
Troy is awsome, just look at his hair man! I will reserve judgment until the public demonstration on the 17th of February. Won't everybody just $#!+ if he turns out to be right? (BTW he says the 8 foot tube is what the $40000 the french supposedly gave him went towards, It is a booster to increase the range to 220 miles into space.)
Just a remark to Todd,
you didn't read the article very well did you?
The device shines the 'Light' on an object and you can see through the first layer the light strikes. you don't need to look through the device.
If it works, I think it may have something to do with exiting particles and 'illuminating' them to a visible spectrum as they are reflected back through the barrier. you wouldn't see through more than one layer, because the illuminating frequencies would not reach past the first barrier layer to illuminate the penetrating frequencies.
oh and Niko, I think Yeti probably does live near him. The guy is that weird. seriously.
and he is always broke so I wouldn't doubt his wife is working at KFC.
Some five years back, the Discovery Channel aired a program about some satellite-borne sensing device the US military had reportedly been developing which, those interviewed claimed, was capable of "seeing" up (down?) to 12-15 ft. into the ground.
Any connection there, however loose?
What was true about the military gadget, if anything?