http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/17/qinetiqs-millimeter-wave-sees-through-walls-and-your-clothes/ Engadget Comments for Qinetiq's Millimeter Wave sees through walls and your clothes http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/17/qinetiqs-millimeter-wave-sees-through-walls-and-your-clothes/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/17/qinetiqs-millimeter-wave-sees-through-walls-and-your-clothes/Dec 19th 2005 12:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/17/qinetiqs-millimeter-wave-sees-through-walls-and-your-clothes/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/17/qinetiqs-millimeter-wave-sees-through-walls-and-your-clothes/
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The change in posture might come from not being able to take a normal photo with the magical millimeter-wave scanner. So the subject might have moved between shots. In fact this might be seen as something that speaks for the trueness of the story.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/17/qinetiqs-millimeter-wave-sees-through-walls-and-your-clothes/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/17/qinetiqs-millimeter-wave-sees-through-walls-and-your-clothes/Dec 19th 2005 12:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/17/qinetiqs-millimeter-wave-sees-through-walls-and-your-clothes/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/17/qinetiqs-millimeter-wave-sees-through-walls-and-your-clothes/
I also don't see anything odd about it not penetrating the shoes. Shoe leather is much more dense than the shirt and pants he's wearing (and note that even the newspaper is thick enough to have some effect, if there's a clean background to see it against).]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/17/qinetiqs-millimeter-wave-sees-through-walls-and-your-clothes/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/17/qinetiqs-millimeter-wave-sees-through-walls-and-your-clothes/Dec 19th 2005 12:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/17/qinetiqs-millimeter-wave-sees-through-walls-and-your-clothes/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/17/qinetiqs-millimeter-wave-sees-through-walls-and-your-clothes/I cannot see how this is reliable if they cannot give us an image that matches the photo. A camera and the mm scanner cannot take a pic at the same time? The entire mass of that scanned body looks different. And if leather is all it takes... I doubt that a smuggler or bomber would EVER figure out to wear a leather jacket and leather pants. Hells Angels would obviously be targets for profiling.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/17/qinetiqs-millimeter-wave-sees-through-walls-and-your-clothes/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/17/qinetiqs-millimeter-wave-sees-through-walls-and-your-clothes/Dec 19th 2005 12:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/17/qinetiqs-millimeter-wave-sees-through-walls-and-your-clothes/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/17/qinetiqs-millimeter-wave-sees-through-walls-and-your-clothes/
How does the fact that someone stood a foot or two away from the mmw device and took a comparison picture before/afterwards influence the effectiveness or the reality of the technology?]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/17/qinetiqs-millimeter-wave-sees-through-walls-and-your-clothes/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/17/qinetiqs-millimeter-wave-sees-through-walls-and-your-clothes/Dec 19th 2005 12:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/17/qinetiqs-millimeter-wave-sees-through-walls-and-your-clothes/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/17/qinetiqs-millimeter-wave-sees-through-walls-and-your-clothes/
Remember, this is not a technology that claims to take a picture and analyze the pixels to show you what is hidden underneath. The photo is only there to show you that the dude they're scanning is indeed wearing clothes and holding a newspaper.

It's kind of like saying a football team didn't actually win the game because one news reporter said the post-game party started at 7pm and another said it started at 7:30pm.

In other words, if you think this technology is bogus, that's fine, but your conclusion really shouldn't be based on the fact that the pictures are taken at the same time. Just IMHO.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/17/qinetiqs-millimeter-wave-sees-through-walls-and-your-clothes/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/17/qinetiqs-millimeter-wave-sees-through-walls-and-your-clothes/Dec 19th 2005 12:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/17/qinetiqs-millimeter-wave-sees-through-walls-and-your-clothes/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/17/qinetiqs-millimeter-wave-sees-through-walls-and-your-clothes/Dec 19th 2005 12:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/17/qinetiqs-millimeter-wave-sees-through-walls-and-your-clothes/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/17/qinetiqs-millimeter-wave-sees-through-walls-and-your-clothes/
No wonder they had to pixelate his face.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/17/qinetiqs-millimeter-wave-sees-through-walls-and-your-clothes/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/17/qinetiqs-millimeter-wave-sees-through-walls-and-your-clothes/Dec 19th 2005 12:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/17/qinetiqs-millimeter-wave-sees-through-walls-and-your-clothes/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/17/qinetiqs-millimeter-wave-sees-through-walls-and-your-clothes/Dec 19th 2005 12:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/17/qinetiqs-millimeter-wave-sees-through-walls-and-your-clothes/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/17/qinetiqs-millimeter-wave-sees-through-walls-and-your-clothes/PS. if they had two tripods the angel would be slightly different.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/17/qinetiqs-millimeter-wave-sees-through-walls-and-your-clothes/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/17/qinetiqs-millimeter-wave-sees-through-walls-and-your-clothes/Dec 19th 2005 12:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/17/qinetiqs-millimeter-wave-sees-through-walls-and-your-clothes/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/17/qinetiqs-millimeter-wave-sees-through-walls-and-your-clothes/
It is true that the technology can see through the clothes, just like the previously well known infrared camera.

However, due to privacy issues, the technology was not used for scanning people. I wonder which sector would use that for personnel scanning.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/17/qinetiqs-millimeter-wave-sees-through-walls-and-your-clothes/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/17/qinetiqs-millimeter-wave-sees-through-walls-and-your-clothes/Dec 19th 2005 12:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/17/qinetiqs-millimeter-wave-sees-through-walls-and-your-clothes/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/17/qinetiqs-millimeter-wave-sees-through-walls-and-your-clothes/
A normal camera would not be integrated with the equipment due to privacy concerns.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/17/qinetiqs-millimeter-wave-sees-through-walls-and-your-clothes/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/17/qinetiqs-millimeter-wave-sees-through-walls-and-your-clothes/Dec 19th 2005 12:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/17/qinetiqs-millimeter-wave-sees-through-walls-and-your-clothes/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/17/qinetiqs-millimeter-wave-sees-through-walls-and-your-clothes/Dec 19th 2005 12:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/17/qinetiqs-millimeter-wave-sees-through-walls-and-your-clothes/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/17/qinetiqs-millimeter-wave-sees-through-walls-and-your-clothes/
The comment by Bozznia is more relevant for people from conservative societies. Lesser travel, lesser transfer of intellect, the West dries-up, technology and progress moves to the East. Think about it!
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