Crazy! Scientists Have Found A Way to See People Through Walls Using WiFi

WiFi can pass through walls.

This fact is easy to take for granted, yet it's the reason we can surf the web using a wireless router located in another room.

However, not all of that microwave radiation makes it to or from our phones, tablets, and laptops. Routers scatter and bounce their signal off objects, illuminating our homes and offices like invisible light bulbs.

Now, German scientists have found a way to exploit this property to take holograms, or 3D photographs, of objects inside of a room — from outside of the room.

"It can basically scan a room with someone's WiFi transmission," Philipp Holl, a 23-year-old undergraduate physics student at the Technical University of Munich, told Business Insider.

Holl initially built the device as part of his bachelor thesis with the help of his academic supervisor, Friedemann Reinhard. Later on the two submitted a study about their technique to the journal Physical Review Letters, which published their paper in early May.

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[lepup]

This tech was already in a Batman movie. And that usually means they have had it for years.

[CheekyMonkey]

CIA has had this technology for years. In addition it's possible to do this with infrared.

[JH-piyh]

great now that one guy uncle Carl is gonna stalk little girls with these

[theylivewesleep]

How do you think they always raid people when they're in the shower .

[MrLordconan]

The movie Eraser with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Vanessa Williams showed that back in 1996

[candicechristian]

so sick of all this but it's how no one will be able to escape from the athoritres, and off to camps

[ticalion]

I'm pretty sure some Police Departments started using this technology last year.

[mr.beasley]

that would be a invasion of privacy to me not cool with that at all

[phoebelove]

One of the reasons lead paint was banned, not because hungry children were eating paint chips.

[fadedrunner]

This is why we have no concrete houses and no metal roof's They could always do this. Forever.

[laurastierheim]

They have been watching me through my tv. for 20 years.

[jennykolinek]

JESUS IS COMING BACK SOON!! My TRUST IS IN THE LORD!!

[rickdaystar]

Yes WiFi uses 2.4gig and 5.0gig. Coincidentally 2.4gig is the exact frequency microwave ovens use...look it up, anyway these microwave signals bounce around a room and create a profile of objects like sonar does in water.

[pennypincher]

Could It be this is the underlying motivation for banning lead paint?

[antonrayne]

This tech sounds like the tech in the Batman movie where they use cell phones produced by Wayne industries to fight the hostiles in the building.
Conditioning at work.

[worken]

This is very old news. This article came out 6 months ago.

[robertv.k]

Just like the Batman movie with morgan freeman😳 Sick!!

[janettaschuch]

Thought they were already driving by looking into closed 18 wheelers.

[TommyBJesus]

That's nothing in 1998, Sony accidentally sold 700, 000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people's clothes.
Look in to it there could be an old cam out there with the real X-ray vision...

[gingerbreadmanquan]

they have been doing it in the movies years not we are not surprised