Dr Andy Harvey, a senior lecturer in electrical engineering at Heriot-Watt University has created a video camera styled device that can detect 30 times more colors than a human eye. This device boast of the only technology of its kind as the invention is the first moving camera to allow such sophisticated color differentiation.
The army is testing this device to be used as a device to detect land mines. The device can differentiate between world’s best camouflage and real foliage.
The image replicating imaging spectrometer technology has been developed at Heriot-Watt University over the past four years and has received up to £800,000 in funding from sources including the Department for Trade and Industry and QinetiQ, the defence and security specialist, which was once part of the MoD.
The device is currently only a research toll and is set to go under clinical trials. If the device displays good results, it may find great use in applications related to vision and detection of a cancer at early stage.
Via: Scotsman
