Researchers at the University of Texas, USA, announced the creation of a chip that could cause any cell may be able to see through walls in the near future. The invention was developed using a complementary metal-semiconductor oxide (CMOS), which can detect frequency electromagnetic waves in the terahertz range.
The technology can be used to "see" through walls of wood, to help merchants identify counterfeit bills and even help doctors to look for tumors, without resorting to expensive tests or magnetic resonance imaging to potentially hazardous X-ray
"CMOS technology is affordable and can be used to produce many of these chips," explains Professor Kenneth O (yes, his last name is "O"), who led the study. "The combination of CMOS with terahertz means you can put one of these chips in the back of a smartphone, turning a device that you carry in your pocket on a device that can see through walls," explains the researcher.
"There are so many things that can be done with this new technology that has not even think of them all," said O. Commenting on possible concerns about possible violations of privacy that type equipment may cause the teacher explains that it only works properly up to 10 cm away.
For some time there are some applications that simulate x-ray for mobile phones, actually used by kids 11 years impress your friends at school for 10 years. Now it was serious. But still there is no prediction of an apparatus equipped with X-ray arrives in stores.
The technology can be used to "see" through walls of wood, to help merchants identify counterfeit bills and even help doctors to look for tumors, without resorting to expensive tests or magnetic resonance imaging to potentially hazardous X-ray
"CMOS technology is affordable and can be used to produce many of these chips," explains Professor Kenneth O (yes, his last name is "O"), who led the study. "The combination of CMOS with terahertz means you can put one of these chips in the back of a smartphone, turning a device that you carry in your pocket on a device that can see through walls," explains the researcher.
"There are so many things that can be done with this new technology that has not even think of them all," said O. Commenting on possible concerns about possible violations of privacy that type equipment may cause the teacher explains that it only works properly up to 10 cm away.
For some time there are some applications that simulate x-ray for mobile phones, actually used by kids 11 years impress your friends at school for 10 years. Now it was serious. But still there is no prediction of an apparatus equipped with X-ray arrives in stores.
