FLIR for iPhone: <$350 !

[Acera]

Getting close to this getting out to regular consumers.

FLIR is now allowing you to pre-order their thermal case for your iPhone, price $349.

Oh how the piggies are going to hate it.


FLIR ONE? personal thermal imager by FLIR® - See the Heat°

 

[Sapper740]

Now that is "cool"!

 

[jrbfishn]

Does it mount on a rifle? Is cool though.


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[Charlie]

Nice! If I only had more "disposable" income!

 

[jordanmills]

yeah but then you're stuck with an iPhone. barf.

 

[orbitup]

Yeah, the iphone is the downside. Really cool product though.

 

[Acera]

Does it mount on a rifle? Is cool though.

The are many ways to do that.

Don't know about this one, but it looks................well interesting. It shows some promise.
Inteliscope - Your Premium Tactical Accessory & App for iPhone

My thought would be to mount it like the picture below in conjunction with a strong predator light. Search for the pigs (or other legal to hunt at night stuff) with the thermal, then hit the bright light to illuminate them right before firing.

 

[jrbfishn]

Had not seen those, interesting.


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[Dawico]

Still not worth getting an iPhone.

 

[F350-6]

Yeah, the iphone is the downside. Really cool product though.

They're coming out with one that is for Android. I've already talked to them.

There's also better image quality stuff in the works. Handheld HeatWave device produces 3D thermal maps in real-time

Don't know the time frame on either of them.

 

[jrbfishn]

The intelliscope, with thermal ir infrared would be cool.

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[AKM]

Does it mount on a rifle? Is cool though.


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they have stuff to mount phones to optics

 

[TaylorS]

Got the intelliscope app and think I want the mount XD. FLIR looks cool but idk if it's 350 bucks worth of hold up to the crap I do to my phone kinda cool

 

[TXARGUY]

I like it. Weapon mounting it is retarded though*.


*Sorry if I offended anyone by calling them retarded.

 

[jrbfishn]

Pfft, one of the nicer things I ever been called.

Would give me soomething to do with my old iphone though.
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[TheDan]

$350 for FLIR sounds really cheap; even if you have to use a stupid iphone. Are there any other thermal imaging options in that price range or cheaper?

 

[TXARGUY]

$350 for FLIR sounds really cheap; even if you have to use a stupid iphone. Are there any other thermal imaging options in that price range?

No

 

[Kaos]

The response i received from Flir is that it can see images out to 100 yards. I would think the image would be alittle blurry and this device is more suited for less than 10 ft. JMO though...

 

[TXARGUY]

The response i received from Flir is that it can see images out to 100 yards. I would think the image would be alittle blurry and this device is more suited for less than 10 ft. JMO though...

Right. I can currently "see" images out to 100 yards and even further with my iPhone, although not so much at night or in a whole lot of other lighting conditions due to un-upgradable, un-improvable hardware limitations of my iPhone 5.

Actually being able to ascertain what it is I'm seeing confident enough to take a shot at it is a whole nother ballgame.

The addition of this external (although attached) VGA supported IR sensor, while exciting don't get me wrong (I'm a Trekkee and absolutely love seeing the tricorder come to existence in my lifetime), in it's present state inspires no more 'take the shot' confidence in me than the existing camera does.

But still it is a step forward. And I hear it's great for thermal selfies.

Which my Facebook profile is currently somehow and sadly lacking.

FTR, I'm still looking for those x-ray vision glasses that look totally normal but can see through clothes that I was promised on the back of my Fruit Loops box as a kid. You'd think I'd have saved up enough box tops by now.

Although at the moment the thought of seeing 99.999999999...% (or 100% mathematically due to the absence of nonzero infinitesimals in the real number system) of the any given non-my wife population, naked, in real time leads me to gain a certain understanding of the reasoning behind Kellogg's decision to cut off funding from their x-ray glasses project in the mid '80s and sell their burgeoning yet incomplete x-ray glasses technology to the person or entity holding the most box tops; which apparently happened to be the United States Government*.






*I think the U.S. Gov cheated by printing their own unlimited box tops and taking percentages of hard earned box tops from the population at large**.

**They probably got all the Atari systems we were promised we could win if we could just sell enough fund-raising crap door to door also***.

***I bet Obama and his Secret Service buddies are playing those ill-gained Ataris right now and laughing about it.

 

[TheDan]

Actually being able to ascertain what it is I'm seeing confident enough to take a shot at it is a whole nother ballgame.

The addition of this external VGA supported IR sensor in it's present state inspires no more 'take the shot' confidence in me than the existing camera does.

Very true, but it should help you spot critters in the dark. Once you locate them with thermal you can turn on your light, laser, or NV and then shoot.