Bigfoot hunters take note: MIT invention will let you see through walls (or trees?) [VIDEO]

The ability to see through walls is no longer the stuff of science fiction. Thanks to new radar technology developed at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory a system has been built by researchers that can see through walls from some distance away, giving an instantaneous picture of the activity on the other side.

You don’t exactly get a clear picture from the system however. Instead, the display looks something like a heat map (or a thermal image). MIT News explains:

The system digitizes the signals it receives into video. Currently, humans show up as “blobs” that move about the screen in a bird’s-eye-view perspective, as if the viewer were standing on the wall and looking down at the scene behind. The researchers are currently working on algorithms that will automatically convert a blob into a clean symbol to make the system more end-user friendly. “To understand the blobs requires a lot of extra training,” Charvat says.

Did you hear that? With extra training, this new technology may be able to pick out blobsquatches and automatically covert them into symbols so you can better track the objects moving.

Though it is clearly still in the early stages, such a tool could be an enormous boon to members of the military when trying to find suspects or locate missing people. But technology often makes travels from the battle field to civilian life. And we can only dream of what Bigfoot researchers can do with this once the technology becomes available to them.

[via: www.mit.edu]