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Can someone with a scientific knowledge tell me if we'll one day have technology to package the full body scanner into glasses? That will open a massive can of

• 83457 16y ago
  Of course. Your body radiates waves of various types through your clothes, or waves can be bounced off your body, that are not visible to the human eye. The waves can be recorded through various methods and converted to an image that we can see on a video screen. Once we have augmented reality glasses which is inevitable, this will certainly be on the market somewhere. Google for "night vision see through clothes" and "infra red see through clothes".
  • dmoney 16y ago
    I think the grandparent was asking if the X-ray machines themselves could be miniaturized enough to fit in the glasses. In case you wanted to use them when a giant machine wasn't around.
    • Retric 16y ago
      You can generate X-ray's from a device the size of a flashlight.
  • techiferous 16y ago
    But there is a limitation: you would be able to detect the underlying shape but not the colors of the skin. tl;dr: Won't work on tattoos.