9/10/2014

New Infrared iPhone 5 Case Lets You See Behind Walls

New Infrared iPhone 5 Case

Lets You See Behind Walls
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The smartphone case industry is beginning to

move away from bling-encrusted cheap tat and
into the realms of useful accessory.
FLIR systems has done just that and invented a
case for Apple's AAPL -0.35% iPhone with
thermal-imaging capabilities, which it revealed
at CES earlier this year but is finally about to go
on sale. The FLIR One is an iPhone 5/5s case
with both an infrared camera and a VGA one
thats supposed to add depth and detail to the
infrared images.
The device works by combining the heat
signature information it gets from the infrared
camera with the live camera image from the
iPhone. This then delivers a composite thermal
heat image. The result is a negative-type image
of the various heat levels in an array of different
colours bright red and white being hottest.
What is it used for? FLIR Systems explains that
it will be useful for pinpointing the position of
pipes in walls, finding weak spots in your
homes insulation, finding hidden animals in
bushes and identifying leaks before they cause
serious damage.

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Users will be able to take time lapse and panoramic thermal images,
whilst being able to edit and share what theyve captured. The case has its
own battery pack, which holds a two hour charge, and weighs about the
same as the phone. It retails for about $350 and will be available in
August.

Rise of the smart-case

Smart cases are in vogue. Sure, theres still the
odd 24-carat gold case floating around, but
theres also a new trend in high-tech case
accessories.
The team at Vysk Communications have
developed a phone case that, according to its
inventor Victor Cocchia, makes your iPhone
unhackable. Called the QS1, the $230 case has
its own circuitry, its own battery pack,
microphone and shutters that physically block
the front and rear facing cameras.

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The idea is that your calls and texts cant be monitored because the
encryption happens outside the phone, and not on the compromised
software installed on the phone. Cocchia explained to me:
The encryption is happening on the hardware chip. The communication
then goes through the phone, so this way theres no way for someone
whos got control of the phone to hear what youre saying, he says.
And then we decided just in case any of those were compromised, we
would put a mechanical device on the phone that physically jams the
microphones.
Security experts havent been able to point out a flaw in the QS1, yet. But
doubts have been raised about the lack of open source code. Egemen Tas,
vice president of engineering at security specialist Comodo, told me:
In order to gain the confidence of private, anonymous or sensitive users
and have a wide spread adoption, they should make their core
technologies open source and open to an independent audit.
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Bionym's Nymi uses cardiac rhythm recognition to as a form of biometric identity
authentication. The technology could be used in place of passwords, PINs or keys and cards.

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