The X-ray Glasses...

I know some people will be offended at the very concept of x-Ray glasses but all perverted concepts aside I want to focus on the concept that technology has made it possible to see through clothing, even through several layers of cloth!

There are several types of X-Ray glasses on the market. Some are true X-Ray others are optical illusions. I want to talk about the range of types and how their technologies work. I find this technology fascinating for a lot of reasons. One type is used not just to see through clothing but to read secret messages painted on someone’s back leg etc.. Seen through the clothing!

You will, if you’ve never heard any of these concepts before be stunned how this technology became known “Accidentally” by a Sony handicam with night vision!

Apparently the night vision camera when used during the day could see through certain types of fabric (synthetic). When it was discovered people started to wonder how it worked and it turns out it’s the infrared beam that’s fed out and reflected back to the camera.

What you’re seeing in a night vision camera is inferred light reflected off of objects and fed back into the camera. Some synthetic clothing designed to “breathe” and allow the sun to come in (so you can get a “full” tan while wearing a bathing suit, a lot of bathing suits are like this) by design let light in or more related let UV rays in.

UV rays are a lot like Inferred rays in characteristics and this is what the camera sees (inferred). The clothing has enough tiny holes to let enough light in and bounce back out to the camera so you see the reflected inferred light, the clothes still opaque enough to hide the unmentionables to the naked eye but to the camera this is a different story.

When infrared light is let in it also bounces out and the camera picks it up. With the right filters (which have become more and more advanced) this light shows some pretty good definition, as other light is filtered out so it doesn’t over contrast the inferred beams coming back in. The filter isolates the light the camera picks up so you get a clearer picture. The X-Ray pictures (which you can see in the links below) aren’t HDTV quality but impressive enough to make these real x-Ray glasses!

The parts of the clothing that don’t allow the inferred beam into the skin to bounce it back out (clothing is non reflective but the skin is highly reflective) absorb the light and so the picture is not perfect, much like a lower resolution screen is pixilated because of less pixels of definition.