Some of the Awesome Things You Can See with an Infrared Camera

Rhett Allain
7 min readAug 16, 2021
Photo: Rhett Allain. The family dog in infrared.

It wasn’t that long ago that it would be completely unrealistic for normal humans to own an infrared camera. I think it was around 2010 that I ordered an IR camera for work — it had a price of around $3000. That’s pretty pricey.

But now, there are a bunch of low price cameras. Most of them connect to your phone and cost under $200 (I’m a big fan of the FLIR

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Rhett Allain

Physics faculty, science blogger of all things geek. Technical Consultant for CBS MacGyver and MythBusters. WIRED blogger.