There's an app for that!
This is woo, right?
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The other day, author pal and PharmFamily friend Rebecca Skloot sent out a Twitter request for iPhone app suggestions for her new gadget, particular
This is very bad news: I don't mind at all that Apple's Mac/iPhone/iPad technology is closed and proprietary, but when they use that to censor delivered content, I get very, very unhappy.
Yes, we have it.
You can check out the app in iTunes here.
Features include a schedule quick-reference, information about the conference as a whole, and a brief nod to the participating sponsors.
Yes, we have it.
You can check out the app in iTunes here.
Features include a schedule quick-reference, information about the conference as a whole, and a brief nod to the participating sponsors.
This is woo, right?
Well I'm not shopping for lead underwear just yet.
Well, sorta...
Terahertz radiation can pass through lots of materials like plastics, paper, ceramics, and fabrics. Therefore, it's not too terribly wrong to say that it can see through clothes. But, scanning a clothed person will produce mostly a rough silhouette form of their body with very little or no surface detail. So...
Security Value - High: May be quite useful to scan whether a person is packing heat, in the non-infrared sense of packing heat.
Porno Value - Alas, Quite Low: But maybe not quite zero if you're juvenile, extremely easily aroused, and lacking in respect. (That was somewhat redundant.)
More info here:
http://phys.org/news/2012-04-cell-walls.html
You can get a copy of their paper here:
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6176998
if you want to pay for it.
OMFG!!!111!!eleventy!!!
Terror hurts radiation! What have those damn Mooslems got now? Oh. Terahertz. Sorry, I'll be leaving then.