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Re: Liteye Thermal Imaging

What does it take to make something like the Liteye?  I bet the components
are dirt cheap and they are charging way too much for it, like all of the
other monocular products out there..

----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Sutherland" <>
To: "Florian Echtler" <>; "Adrian David Cheok"
<>
Cc: <>
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 11:37 PM
Subject: RE: Liteye Thermal Imaging

> Florian Echtler wrote:
>
> > IR isn't IR all the time. The stuff that usual CCD cameras can see
> > is AFAIK Near Infrared or NIR, which isn't the same as heat radiation
> > that has a noticeably longer wavelength.
>
> The Liteye cameras are long wave length IR, they use ambient temp
> sensors. More info here http://www.liteye.com/pdf/bolometer.pdf
>
> This is serious wearable weaponry tech. They come in three versions:
>   1) helmet mounted
>   2) handheld
>   3) weapons mounted, thermal imager on weapon, display on helmet
>
> The Liteye site says they are low cost ... yeah, relative to other
> real night vision scopes ... and by military cost standards. Looks
> like you have to be in the army to get all of the really good tech.
> Too bad that requires killing and/or getting killed :(
>
>   -- Doug
>
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