[citation][nom]bobusboy[/nom]nightvision is infrared not UV FYI, and xray hardly, different materials have different IR emission rates which makes them appear brighter or darker, this is the kind of night vision you're going to be seeing. ie. skin emits 98 and cotton is 54, but electrical tape is 97 (higher the value the brighter it appears on the screen.)[citation]
The mention of X-ray is just a reference pertaining to the seeming effects of being able to see through ones clothing. It has nothing to do with actual X-Rays. Also nothing was ever mentioned or inferred about UV rays either.
[citation][nom]joebob2000[/nom]So few people look better through an IR camera than they do in visible light that I doubt this will catch on. It's like saying the airport guards are going to be ogling the full body scanners as women go through; you need to be a special sort of weird to even prefer the scanner version to ogling the real thing.[/citation]
It was a light hearted joke or don't you remember your history?
Look up the Sony HandyCam Super Night Vision incidents and you'll see what I am referring to.
The images from the Sony HandyCam Super Night Vision are no comparision to that of the airport secuirty scanners.
Sony was forced to stop producing the Super Night Vision in their HandyCams because of the fact that they used the Infrared spectrum and were strong enough where they could violate one's privacy, providing someone was lightly dressed. Plus the fact that this feature was being abused on public beaces and other places with the videos ending up online.
So if one was to provide the Auto Industry with windshields that have a coating which converts the InfraRed spectrum to visable light, strong enough to drive at night with out the need for headlights, then you would most probably have privacy rights activists up in arms for the very same reason that the Super Night Vision was removed from the Sony HandyCam.
Privacy Rights activists wouldn't care whether or not people with clothes on would look good or not through the IR spectrum. All they would care about is the possible invasion of privacy.