Anyone know what the device is that the medical person appears to be zapping the guy with in the foreground of this picture? It looks like a radar gun!!!
(http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/h1n1_05_06/h11_18861207.jpg)
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Taking his temp, maybe. ???
That was my first guess, but that's a weird tool. I've never seen anything like that before.
Quote from: OverCaffeinated on May 11, 2009, 02:58:58 PM
Taking his temp, maybe. ???
looks like it's a Laser-Thermometer
(http://www.tooltopia.com/ProductImages/clp-inn/ESI-EST65.jpg)
I hope its not made by Microsoft :-X
Its a mind eraser/control ray gun. My wife has one. She used it on me when we got married.
I didn't know that you could measure your temp with a laser. That's pretty cool!
There were temp gauges kind of like that in some of the Asian airports during the first outbreak of bird flu.
Quote from: Monster Dave on May 11, 2009, 03:07:32 PM
I didn't know that you could measure your temp with a laser. That's pretty cool!
Yeah, I'm kinda unsure about how that works........... ???
I think its a gun from the movie Predator and they are going to finish the guy off.
It's an infrared thermometer. The laser isn't used to measure the temperature, it just shows you where the gun is aimed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrared_thermometer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrared_thermometer)
Quote from: Triple J on May 11, 2009, 03:19:06 PM
It's an infrared thermometer. The laser isn't used to measure the temperature, it just shows you where the gun is aimed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrared_thermometer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrared_thermometer)
Life would be so dull if it weren't for Wiki!!! [thumbsup]
Quote from: Ducaholic on May 11, 2009, 03:06:55 PM
Its a mind eraser/control ray gun. My wife has one. She used it on me when we got married.
;D
Yea, Infrared thermometer, they use one to check the output temps on my HVAC unit in my classroom. Never knew the vents were putting out 130F air ~
JM