<story><title>Caterpillar&apos;s new smartphone with built-in thermal imaging</title><url>http://gizmodo.com/caterpillars-new-s60-is-the-first-smartphone-with-flir-1759685817?sf44639276=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>verytrivial</author><text>This is perhaps the first actually interesting sensor&amp;#x2F;add-on I&amp;#x27;ve seen for a phone.  I&amp;#x27;m picturing myself running around the outside of my house looking for hot-spots to re-insulate and hence justify to my partner the purchase price of the device.  Or hot electronic components. Or playing a TSA creep and looking for ill people on public transport. What fun! (I hope other manufacturer&amp;#x27;s race in to this market.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ascorbic</author><text>I have one of the Flir dongles (bought for work: I work with high-power LEDs) and I&amp;#x27;ve gotten quite obsessive about looking for draughts and insulation gaps. It gives you spot temperatures on the screen too, which is really useful. Seeing the icy-blue draught pouring through the broken cat flap seal and pooling on the floor was a wake-up call.</text></comment>
<story><title>Caterpillar&apos;s new smartphone with built-in thermal imaging</title><url>http://gizmodo.com/caterpillars-new-s60-is-the-first-smartphone-with-flir-1759685817?sf44639276=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>verytrivial</author><text>This is perhaps the first actually interesting sensor&amp;#x2F;add-on I&amp;#x27;ve seen for a phone.  I&amp;#x27;m picturing myself running around the outside of my house looking for hot-spots to re-insulate and hence justify to my partner the purchase price of the device.  Or hot electronic components. Or playing a TSA creep and looking for ill people on public transport. What fun! (I hope other manufacturer&amp;#x27;s race in to this market.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JulianMorrison</author><text>Or vampires. It&amp;#x27;s gonna really suck for vampires once these are in iPhones. &amp;gt;:-[</text></comment>