Color Vision
A team of engineers has created a system that allows people to see color in the infrared spectrum – as long as they are looking through the camera’s lens.
We can see wavelength light within the visible spectrum, a very narrow band of colors that falls between ultraviolet and infrared light. But researchers at Tel Aviv University have developed a system that allows us to see the colors of infrared light by riding on a camera, according to research published in the journal Laser and Photonics Reviews. It usually makes the expensive scientific tool more ible accessible – at that stage it can be used for photography or civics.
New world
The team says the device could be used to image gases such as hydrogen, carbon and sodium, each of which has a bright glow in the infrared. It can also create images of scenes of nature, which tend to look at other worlds under infrared light.
“[Visible light is] Only a small fraction of the electromagnetic spectrum, including radio waves, microwaves, X-rays and more, ‘said Tel Aviv physicist Michael Marejen in a press release. “In these parts of the electromagnetic spectrum, there is a lot of information on materials encoded as ‘colors’ that are not yet hidden from view.”
Fun and games
Aside from photography and science, scientists suggest a few more results-oriented uses for their low-cost infrared tech.
“So environmental surveillance satellites can ‘see’ the pollutants emanating from the plant,” co-worker Ham Susowski said in the release, “or spy satellites can see where explosives or uranium are hidden. “
read more: New technology allows the camera to capture colors invisible to the human eye [Tel Aviv University]
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