The chip that allows you to see with X-rays as if you were ‘Superman’ is a reality and you could have it in your mobile

This is truly amazing technology.

The truth is that X-rays have very wide uses. Not only do they allow us to see the inside of the human body in a surprising way but also helps us decipher hidden mysteries of the past like the scrolls of Pompeii. In this way, technology has helped us create and know our past better but It’s always been really expensive. since until now we had to have a technology that was quite complex, necessary and not very health-friendly.

It seems that this is changing, since a team of scientists has created an X-ray device that can even be used inside our mobile phone. A surprising leap in quality.

The mobile phones of the future will have very interesting technology

An article published in the journal IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology by members of the University of Texas have managed to develop an imaging chip that is strongly inspired by the X-ray system that allowed people to see superman in the comics and movies of the saga. Only in this case it doesn’t start from our gaze, of course, but rather we can have it on our mobile device without problems. It is a chip with surprising capabilities, since It allows us to know what is behind walls or packagessomething that until now had seemed unthinkable to us and something the result of a science fiction film.

However, it seems to be a reality. It operates through a frequency of 300 GHz in the millimeter band, which translates to something totally invisible to the human eye but at the same time it does not influence its exposition in any way. In this way, our health will not be in question, since nothing is used that could be harmful to us.

What is truly remarkable is that it is a very scalable technology and that can be incorporated into any device existing today. This includes our mobile phones, where we can see the X-ray images without requiring greater effort than opening our mobile phone and turning on the “camera”.

On the other hand, many of you at this point will be wondering how it works when it comes to privacy. It is very simple, since at the moment it only works bringing the device a few centimeters closer and cannot see through very thick or heavy covers. It is used to see through a cardboard box or a practically paper wall. It will not penetrate lead, not even a very thick wall, so the limitations of this device today are evident.

For this reason, a substantial increase in the research about these chips and its emission of waves. However, it is a quite interesting step and once again demonstrates how the science fiction is ahead of our scientific knowledge allowing us to advance unstoppably in the technological future and setting a clear precedent for the steps that technology will follow. Something that can also be easily seen in Artificial Intelligence such as GPT-4o

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