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Re:People leave molecular wakes that may give away their sec... by myself248 on Saturday February 22, 2020 @11:24AM (#22391772)
CAT was branding a phone some time ago with a low-res thermal camera, but it was locked to some already-ancient version of Android and otherwise total lamesauce.

Sad, because I'd buy one if it was just a normal phone plus IR. Presently I make do with a plug-in accessory module.

I share your frustration. Consider a sled-backpack-case sort of thing with "all the missing sensors", instead of piecemeal accessories you carry a gaggle of and have to swap out. If it was like one of those extended-battery sled cases, you could just leave it on and write apps that expect it to be there...

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Re:People leave molecular wakes that may give away their sec... by nitrogen on Saturday February 22, 2020 @11:37AM (#22391860)
You'd probably want the sensor pack to be separable from the phone case, so you can buy a new phone (whose shape changes every year, forcing new accessory purchases).

I do think it's simultaneously cool and ridiculous that instead of just adding a simple distance sensor, companies making measurement software for phones double down on the software-only approach with computer vision.

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Re:People leave molecular wakes that may give away their sec... by NickNameNick on Saturday February 22, 2020 @01:14PM (#22392385)
Friend-of-a-friend was involved in this

https://ikegps.com/spike/

I think they licenced it to Stanley or similar.

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