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MIT Can Now See Through Concrete Walls

Posted October 18, 2011 11:21 AM

From Extremetech:

Up there with invisibility, teleportation, and being able to cancel mid-season TV breaks, x-ray vision is one of the most sought after superpowers.In the mind's eye, the ability to see through clothes has a veritable smorgasbord of litigious applications - but in the real world, especially in a military context, being able to see through walls would give soldiers an immense advantage… And that's exactly what the MIT Lincoln Laboratory has managed to do.

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