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This is perhaps the first actually interesting sensor/add-on I've seen for a phone. I'm picturing myself running around the outside of my house looking for hot-spots to re-insulate and hence justify to my partner the purchase price of the device. Or hot electronic components. Or playing a TSA creep and looking for ill people on public transport. What fun! (I hope other manufacturer's race in to this market.)

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I have one of the Flir dongles (bought for work: I work with high-power LEDs) and I've gotten quite obsessive about looking for draughts and insulation gaps. It gives you spot temperatures on the screen too, which is really useful. Seeing the icy-blue draught pouring through the broken cat flap seal and pooling on the floor was a wake-up call.

Or vampires. It's gonna really suck for vampires once these are in iPhones. >:-[

but vampires can't have their pictures taken, so I have to assume they can't be sensed through a phone in any way whatsoever.

Room temperature on the FLIR or invisible on the regular camera, one way or another they're in the soup.

I bought a FLIR one for the iPhone; and it found an uninsulated section of wall in my house. The actual reason I purchased it was to help locate an under-slab leak. $250 to not break the wrong bit of concrete would be well worth it.

For the CAT phone, I think the bigger selling point is the ruggedness.

Would you have an Amazon link for the FLIR adapter you purchased for your iPhone?

It is called FLIR ONE: http://www.amazon.com/FLIR-ONE-Thermal-Imager-iOS/dp/B00VILV...

"I'm picturing myself running around the outside of my house looking for hot-spots to re-insulate and hence justify to my partner the purchase price of the device."

I just bought one of these last week to do exactly that http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0044R87BE

It is definitely not as cool as a FLIR device but at 1/10 the price, totally worth it.

There have been others for a while:

http://www.amazon.com/Seek-Compact-Thermal-Imager-Android/dp...

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