Review: Flir One thermal camera is all you need to see through the darkness

Aug16

by Sindy Cator on August 16, 2015 at 5:15 pm

Flir One, a thermal imaging camera attachment to your iPhone or Android smartphone, is designed to let you peer deep into impenetrable places like walls and through the pitch black darkness of night. For this utilitarian purpose alone, contractors, sportspeople and homeowners will likely put the $250 Flir to work in more ways than they would have imagined. While this device won’t let you see through walls, it detects and lets you visualize the heat of objects behind them via its Flir One Companion app. That app’s psychedelic color schemes have also caught the attention of visual artists, some (not all) of whom would not know a dry…