Device Developed That Can Identify People Through Walls, MIT Researchers Reveals

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If all goes to plan, a product will become commercially available in 2016 that can pick up wireless reflections off the human body to see the silhouette of a person standing behind a wall. It can distinguish one person from another and even trace a person’s hand as they write in the air. And it can do this without the need for on-body sensors or in-room cameras. Getting uncomfortable yet?

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