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This is perhaps the first actually interesting sensor/add-on I've seen for a phone. I'm picturing myself running around the outside of my house looking for hot

This is perhaps the first actually interesting sensor/add-on I've seen for a phone. I'm picturing myself running around the outside of my house looking for hot-spots to re-insulate and hence justify to my partner the purchase price of the device. Or hot electronic components. Or playing a TSA creep and looking for ill people on public transport. What fun! (I hope other manufacturer's race in to this market.)

JulianMorrison 11y ago
Or vampires. It's gonna really suck for vampires once these are in iPhones. >:-[
- bryanrasmussen 11y ago
  but vampires can't have their pictures taken, so I have to assume they can't be sensed through a phone in any way whatsoever.
  - JulianMorrison 11y ago
    Room temperature on the FLIR or invisible on the regular camera, one way or another they're in the soup.
ascorbic 11y ago
I have one of the Flir dongles (bought for work: I work with high-power LEDs) and I've gotten quite obsessive about looking for draughts and insulation gaps. It gives you spot temperatures on the screen too, which is really useful. Seeing the icy-blue draught pouring through the broken cat flap seal and pooling on the floor was a wake-up call.
mtgx 11y ago
There have been others for a while: http://www.amazon.com/Seek-Compact-Thermal-Imager-Android/dp/B00NYWAHHM http://www.amazon.com/Seek-Compact-Thermal-Imager-Android/dp...
cpwright 11y ago
I bought a FLIR one for the iPhone; and it found an uninsulated section of wall in my house. The actual reason I purchased it was to help locate an under-slab leak. $250 to not break the wrong bit of concrete would be well worth it. For the CAT phone, I think the bigger selling point is the ruggedness.
- toomuchtodo 11y ago
  Would you have an Amazon link for the FLIR adapter you purchased for your iPhone?
  - JorgeGT 11y ago
    It is called FLIR ONE: http://www.amazon.com/FLIR-ONE-Thermal-Imager-iOS/dp/B00VILVV62/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1456241724&sr=8-1&keywords=flir+one http://www.amazon.com/FLIR-ONE-Thermal-Imager-iOS/dp/B00VILV...
atonse 11y ago
"I'm picturing myself running around the outside of my house looking for hot-spots to re-insulate and hence justify to my partner the purchase price of the device." I just bought one of these last week to do exactly that http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0044R87BE http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0044R87BE It is definitely not as cool as a FLIR device but at 1/10 the price, totally worth it.

JulianMorrison 11y ago

Or vampires. It's gonna really suck for vampires once these are in iPhones. >:-[

bryanrasmussen 11y ago
but vampires can't have their pictures taken, so I have to assume they can't be sensed through a phone in any way whatsoever.
- JulianMorrison 11y ago
  Room temperature on the FLIR or invisible on the regular camera, one way or another they're in the soup.

ascorbic 11y ago

I have one of the Flir dongles (bought for work: I work with high-power LEDs) and I've gotten quite obsessive about looking for draughts and insulation gaps. It gives you spot temperatures on the screen too, which is really useful. Seeing the icy-blue draught pouring through the broken cat flap seal and pooling on the floor was a wake-up call.

mtgx 11y ago

There have been others for a while: http://www.amazon.com/Seek-Compact-Thermal-Imager-Android/dp/B00NYWAHHM http://www.amazon.com/Seek-Compact-Thermal-Imager-Android/dp...

cpwright 11y ago

I bought a FLIR one for the iPhone; and it found an uninsulated section of wall in my house. The actual reason I purchased it was to help locate an under-slab leak. $250 to not break the wrong bit of concrete would be well worth it. For the CAT phone, I think the bigger selling point is the ruggedness.

toomuchtodo 11y ago
Would you have an Amazon link for the FLIR adapter you purchased for your iPhone?
- JorgeGT 11y ago
  It is called FLIR ONE: http://www.amazon.com/FLIR-ONE-Thermal-Imager-iOS/dp/B00VILVV62/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1456241724&sr=8-1&keywords=flir+one http://www.amazon.com/FLIR-ONE-Thermal-Imager-iOS/dp/B00VILV...

atonse 11y ago

"I'm picturing myself running around the outside of my house looking for hot-spots to re-insulate and hence justify to my partner the purchase price of the device." I just bought one of these last week to do exactly that http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0044R87BE http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0044R87BE It is definitely not as cool as a FLIR device but at 1/10 the price, totally worth it.