T5000 Camera Detect Object Under Clothes

A British company called ThruVision has created a new camera (T5000) that can detect items or object such as weapons, drugs or explosives hidden under people's clothes from up to 25 meters (up to 80 feet) away although the people are moving. The T5000 camera is uses what it calls "passive imaging technology" to identify objects by the natural electromagnetic rays, known as Terahertz or T-rays, that they emit.

The T5000 is a camera with high-power technology to support all security industry in order to help them more safe due to increase their comprehensive security system. They can use T5000 camera in crowded airports, shopping malls or sporting events. The T5000 camera will be unveiled at a scientific development exhibition sponsored by Britain's Home Office on March 12-13.


Although The T5000 camera is able to see through clothes or underwear it does not reveal "body detail" or subject people to "harmful radiation", the company says. ThruVision company came up with the technology for the T5000 in collaboration with the European Space Agency and from studying research by astronomers into dying stars.


The T5000 camera is able to pass through clothing, paper, ceramics and wood but are blocked by metal and water. The company has made previous versions of the camera, but the T5000, as it is known, is the first that works both indoors and out. They are also has created T5000 in portable device, such as on laptop which useful for the security people who work in strategies area.