Thermal flashlight 'paints' cold rooms with colour

Posted by BernardSwiss on Mar 9, 2012 4:25 AM EDT
New Scientist; By Caitlin Stier
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PENNY-PINCHING landlords had better watch out. Their tenants could soon be armed with thermal flashlights that capture a colourful - and possibly incriminating - portrait of a room's temperature. The device comes from the Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science, a non-profit group based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that develops open-source tools to allow ordinary people to investigate environmental issues. A PLOTS team is working with a school-run project in Harlem, New York, to help tackle landlords who offer poorly heated apartments.

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