A british company called ThruVision has developed a surveillance cam that is able to detect weapons, drugs or explosives behind people’s closes from up to 80 feet (25 meters) away. The T5000 camera utilizes a method called the "passive imaging technology" to identify objects by the emitted natural electromagnetic rays known as Tera hertz or T-rays.

The cam is able effective even on moving subjects but at the same time is not able to reveal any embarrassing body details, also based on ThruVision the screening process is harmless.

This technology could be used in military and civilian applications, for example airports, sporting events, school or shopping malls.

Interesting but also scary, welcome to the surveillance society.

Crowdsourcing Sites, here is another wanna be entering the "crowded" space. crowdSRING is currently in beta and the "Spring" twist is that the first project they are posting is their own site, $5000 prize for the best homepage design submission. Sign up here to access the beta, otherwise wait till April.

The difference between crowdSPRING and other crowdsoucing sites like Kluster, FellowForce, and Cambrian House is that contributors have to put up completed work, not just concept designs. This way their work competes directly with everyone else’s, specially since everybody is able to view your submission. It avoids design by a committee, while it still allows one design to inform another – but it might also discourage more talented providers to spend yet unpaid time on a complete design without knowing if it will pay off.

Together no more?

Rumors are swirling around today over the future of Sprint & Nextel. Seeking Alpha is reporting that Sprint has hired Morgan Stanley for a possible spin-off of its Nextel brand. Sprint’s ongoing troubles has been creating positive and negative conversation material for the last few months now.

I never understood why the got together anyway, since both networks disapointed me as a customer:

Sprint | Their service can only be used with their proprietary cell phones – never liked the limitation, and after 1 year I canceled my servie and moved to Nextel

Nextel | I think people only stayed with it because of the two-way option – after just 6 months I switched to T-Mobile. Why? Well the customer service didn’t help my made-up mind, more the opposite.