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40 years later, real X-Ray specs finally hit the market
If, like me, you grew up reading comic books, you may have been suckered in by those ads in the back selling X-Ray Specs, which promised a way to satisfy your pubescent curiosity about the girl next door. Unfortunately, they really didn't actually work at all, but now technology may have finally caught up with all of you budding voyeurs.
The X-Ray Vision camera lens from David Steele claims to use infrared filtering to allow you to see what's going on under certain types of fabric. The jury is still out on whether it works or not, but if it does, I hope the images are a little more enticing than those new airport screeners At $200 a pop, I'll save my pennies this time.
The X-Ray Vision camera lens is available now in 30mm and 58mm sizes.
David Steele, via Oh Gizmo!
By dudeman at 7:43 PM ON 11/29/08
If I can't see her boobs, how do I know this really works?
By Biggenz at 1:54 AM ON 12/01/08
touche'
By Anonymous at 11:45 AM ON 12/01/08
If it can see through lead even superman will want one.
By hooba at 1:33 PM ON 12/01/08
is it fake?
By panthean at 8:33 PM ON 12/08/08
O_O
wow... needs to be fitted onto my sunglasses... then off to the beach I go...
lol
By Tim at 10:40 PM ON 12/11/08
hahahahaha my friend and I made one of these like 8 years ago in high school. You just need a polarizer, and it's a LOT less than 200 dollars. OLD INVENTION IS OLD
By Klugeet at 2:38 PM ON 01/25/09
Tim, a polarized lens is very different than an IR lens, polarized lenses selectively filter visible light, whereas IR lenses view light in a completely different spectrum.
By Lucho at 1:13 AM ON 03/09/09
This things have existed for a long time (just check Kaya Optics homepage). It was first discovered by some lucky guy who just forgot to turn off his camera's nightvision in broad daylight back in the late 90's. When playing back his recordings he was suddenly amazed by what he saw... suddenly everybody was doing it until companies noticed it and ever since, cameras are sold with an internal device that disables the posibility to filter the entrance of visible light when the nightvision is on. If anyone of you has a video camera with nightvision from '98 or earlier, you might posible be able to do that without buying any lenses.
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