In 1998, Sony inadvertently sold more than 700,000 camcorders with a limited ability to see through clothes.




factoid of the day


anyone care to explain how?

8/8/2007 11:42:19 AM

they, ummm.... accidentally installed a backscatter radiation receiver instead of a microphone?

8/8/2007 11:45:10 AM

They cloned Superman's eyes.

[Edited on August 8, 2007 at 11:54 AM. Reason : d]

8/8/2007 11:53:54 AM

Something to do with the certain infrared beam/sensors. Basically sony accidently set the infrared sensitivity too high which allowed you to see through stuff. The later models had a lower sensitivity.

How it works:
http://www.kaya-optics.com/products/how_it_works.shtml

Example:
http://www.kaya-optics.com/products/experiments.shtml

[Edited on August 8, 2007 at 12:03 PM. Reason : .]

8/8/2007 11:58:00 AM

This is also the first year I got the internet.

Stayed on 56k for like 3 painful years.

Lot has happened in under a decade...

8/8/2007 12:02:48 PM

http://www.kaya-optics.com/products/voyuerism.shtml

nsfw

[Edited on August 8, 2007 at 1:06 PM. Reason : ]

8/8/2007 1:06:46 PM

^ What the fuck, the girl in the video looks like a fucking 10 year old. NSFW doesn't adequately warn for stuff that's going to get you busted by the FBI's child sex crime unit.

8/8/2007 6:51:15 PM

We are all going to jail

8/9/2007 7:37:16 PM

We didnt know guys OK? Everyone get on the same page for when they separate us and ask questions.

8/9/2007 7:40:21 PM

Not at all suprized that you know that^^^^^^

8/9/2007 7:57:24 PM

Quote :

"This is also the first year I got the internet."

in 98 i was high speed surfing on blazing fast Resnet in Sullivan Hall

8/9/2007 8:54:36 PM

^^ read it on a news.bbc article one time.

On a side note, i just saw this:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6938699.stm

8/9/2007 10:45:30 PM

Sadly......you have become one of the better poster on here.
















I had such high hopes for trolling you

8/9/2007 11:28:20 PM

Quote :

" Email : kaya_support@kaya-optics.com Kaya Special Optics, Inc. 11-15 Toranomon 3-Chome, Minato-Ku Tokyo, 105-0001 Japan "

Why is Japan so Crunk?

8/10/2007 1:25:27 AM