Hot stuff: the thermal cameras giving us a new way of seeing our bodies
Thermal cameras are about to give each of us a whole new way of seeing ourselves. The basic technology has been around for years, creeping along the path to maturity. But the latest cameras are finally able to show us the detail of the thermal world at a speed and with a resolution that comes close to a normal video camera. This is not a fuzzy, blurred world; it’s varied, revealing, and astonishingly detailed. When the opportunity came up to put one of the latest cameras to the test, I had no hesitation about what I wanted to do: take it to my badminton club to watch my own body coping with the thermal stress created by running around after a shuttle.
