T-Ray Camera Sees Through Clothes, Preserves Privacy

Quite a few readers are sending in stories about ThruVision's products, slated to be demonstrated in Britain next week, that are claimed to use Terahertz radiation ("T-rays") to detect foreign objects under clothing, without revealing body details, from a distance of 25 meters and while the subject is in motion. T-rays lie on the electromagnetic spectrum between infrared and microwaves, and are the subject of lively research efforts worldwide. ThruVision says it developed its products in cooperation with the European Space Agency.

OMG

[dartarrow]

pr0n!!


oh wait.....

Don't be silly

[BadAnalogyGuy]

Everyone knows the real threat is breast milk and hand cream. Why are we scanning bodies for weapons when there are people trying to get on the plane with Starbucks coffee??

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[stjobe]

jpegs or you're lying!

Oh, hell yes.

[Anonymous Coward]

They might as well call it Titty-ray. I'm no longer going to regret dropping out of high school and becoming a TSA agent!

Aluminum foil

[pesc]

Time to make some aluminum foil underpants to go with your hat.

Let me be the first to say...

[thegrassyknowl]

...owwwww my sperm!

OH wait.. that was an F-ray!

Re:Don't be silly

[clickclickdrone]

>my girlfriend had make-up and beauty cream stolen from her
I blame modern advertising techniques. When you have ads on TV with blinged up rappers saying 'When I is vexed wiv me dry hands man, I get me some Oil of Olay - it's da bomb' - it's no wonder security staff get confused.

Bah

[Mantaar]

They can do what they want, but they'll never see through my tinfoil overall. I even have a catheter, so I never have to go pee. They've got cameras in the toilets, too!

Re:Preserves privacy

[mrbluze]

...so long as you redefine privacy to mean exclusively "photographic images of your body", and exclude anything else including the contents of your own pockets. That's a pretty narrow definition of privacy. So narrow, in fact, that it stops being privacy at all. [ Reply to This ]

Have a bit of pity on the people who have to look at the pictures all day. That's an aweful lot of disgusting bodies to look at for just a few good looking ones!

Re:Don't be silly

[jonaskoelker]

Dude, you have no idea what kind of dangerous weapons of mass destruction you can disguise as breast milk, hand cream and Starbucks coffee. Terrorists are using them to kidnap and molest your children. Won't somebody think of the children?? With this new scanner, we can protect and--God forbid we will have to--save your children. Why do you hate America's children, you crazy hippie?

(Committee for Aviation Transportation Security says "All your privacy are belong to us")

Re:Don't be silly

[Anonymous Coward]

Everyone knows the real threat is breast milk

I propose a MANdatory tactile inspection of breasts for milk at every airport terminal in the country. No, i propose the same test be administered randomly to women on the street since airports aren't the only viable targets.

Re:T-ray

[Chrisq]

Also, it doesn't help google searches. You will find plenty of sites selling trays if you search for t-ray!

Re:Aluminum foil

[siddesu]

meh, n00b. we've had these for years now.

Re:Preserves privacy

[EdIII]

Is this the same reason why some men become gynecologists?

They go through a few miles of bad clam just in the hope of getting to that few inches of celebrity/supermodel paradise?

Re:Aluminum foil

[EdIII]

They modded you funny, but maybe it should be insightful.

Just how many women do you think would pick up a pair of Privacy Britches (TM) to go through the check process? I am betting 99.9999%, with the very small percentage being nymphomaniacs, exhibitionists, and freaky sadistic grannies.

On Another Note... How many men would be stuffing their pants with aluminum sausages out of vanity?

Just possibly there is a product in the works here.

Re:Don't be silly

[Dorceon]

You can get a breast milk latte at Starbucks now? Why wasn't I told?

Re:Judging by this picture

[Bloke down the pub]

You mean the one of the guy with the knife hidden in the newspaper?

Considering how image conscious teenagers are, I don't think she'd be happy being made to look like a cross between a colthes store mannequin and Krtyten from Red Dwarf.

Re:T-Ray?

[Deus.1.01]

Bastard! you robbed me of my chance to get a +5 funnay!! I WAS JUST GONNA MAKE THE FUTURAMA REFERENCE :.(

Re:Just waiting on Total Recall type scanners

[Idiomatick]

I think thats a great idea. I'd find it amusing a bunch of female terrorist whipping out their strap-ons and proceding to shoot the place up. THAT would be a sight to behold. Guerrila warriors with Boob-bombs. While i'm sure this scanner would be used in conjuntion with other tech my image would make a great traditional war painting.

Re:Don't be silly

[aclarke]

Yes you can. COW breast milk.

I'm sorry. That was an udderly lame comment.

Re:Aluminum foil

[EdIII]

I DARE THEM. No, I DOUBLE DARE THEM! :)

I always eat a bunch of Habernero taco sauce and bunch of spicy burritos/tacos before I go through airport security. I promise the guy who attempts to probe me will be talking about it when he is 90 years old.

Unless they are using 90 year old guys to give the tests, in which case it might kill him.

Re:Don't be silly

[LucidBeast]

Aren't the security check waiting rooms, which are crammed with hundreds of explosive travelers, blowing up daily? I don't know, because I'm afraid to google explosions and airport security.

prior art

[pak9rabid]

That's nothin. The good folks in alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female have had this technology for years.

Yeah, but the best part is:

[Kingrames]

I can't wait to see the T-ray kill a bunch of velocirays and then bellow loudly as a banner falls from the sky saying "When Privacy Ruled the Earth."