Seeing Through Walls

Reported July, 2007

VIENNA, Va. (Ivanhoe Broadcast News) -- X-ray vision is no longer just for sci-fi movies and superheroes. Now, superhuman powers are closer to real life than you might think. Engineers have developed a new device, called the Xaver that can see straight through walls.

"It's designed to find people through walls and tell you where they are and how many there are," says engineer Robert Judd. The device can see through plaster, brick, even reinforced concrete. It quickly identifies who or what is in a room and what's happening behind the walls.

The device sends out radio waves through a wall or door. The waves then bounce off objects in a room and bounce back to the device which creates an image of objects in a room -- moving flashes of light represent people or furniture in a room.

"It's not like opening a curtain and looking through a window, it's shadows, it's reflections that look like a cloud for instance."

The military and law enforcement agencies have orders in for the new technology. And seeing what's behind closed doors could help rescue teams save lives.

"A fireman doesn't have a lot of time … he can go in and not waste time searching parts of the building where no one is, or he can go immediately to someone in a room where's he's found a life," says aerospace engineer John Reingruber.

And believe it or not, the wireless signals the technology emits are less energy than a standard cell phone.

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., contributed to the information contained in the TV portion of this report.

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