{"video_id":"CT9mILHT6DM","title":"HOT new tech? - FLIR ONE Thermal Camera","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2017-05-06T14:53:29Z","duration_s":538,"segments":[{"start_s":0.56,"end_s":9.0,"text":"do I make you hot well there's only one way to find","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":5.04,"end_s":12.88,"text":"out for sure a thermal camera meet the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":9.0,"end_s":15.0,"text":"one from Fleer an affordable thermal","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":12.88,"end_s":21.369,"text":"camera module that Clips to the bottom of your","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":23.96,"end_s":31.96,"text":"smartphone Mass drop is currently featuring The MSI GTX 1080 armor 8G","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":30.0,"end_s":36.6,"text":"learn more at the link in the video description let's start with one of my","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":34.239,"end_s":42.2,"text":"biggest complaints about 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improving the versatility and future proofness of these devices an important consideration when you factor in that even an affordable mobile accessory version of fle technology is going to run you $250 us let's take a closer look then at the one both versions look almost the same and share the same internals and same basic mode of operation so we'll be mostly treating them as one for the rest of the video here the outer shell is plastic but fairly confidence inspiring it's not rated for water or dust resistance but it seems like it could survive a drop or two on the right is a status LED equipped power button so you can tell when it's booting up versus fully powered on and ready to engage with the phone app on the left is a battery charge indicator and a micro USB charging port so yes that means the Fleer 1 uses a 350 Mah internal battery in does not charge off of the device it's attached to convenient in some ways but kind of a drag in others and finally at the front are the twin cameras the stars of the show I did say twin but I should probably clarify that I mean fraternal twins in this case because they are absolutely nothing alike one of them is for capturing infrared light a thermal camera and the other is for capturing visible light a well camera camera the thermal camera uses fleer's leptin an astonishingly small and lowcost longwave infrared sensor to generate 80x 60 pixel thermal images that are accurate to within. 1° C from a range ofus 20 all the way up to 120° that's -4 to 248 Fahrenheit for our American viewers the visible camera is less impressive it's a 640x 480 yeah VGA air and that's pretty much all we know about it other than the reason that the Fleer one even has one without getting too deep into this resolution is a word that gets frequently misused it means how much detail can be resolved from an image so a film picture also has a resolution even if you can't count the pixels so let's fire up the app and just take a picture here so the visible camera is actually where it seems like the advertised effective resolution of 160x 120 comes from thanks to a technique called MSX blending that in a nutshell captures a visible light picture then strips out everything but textures and edges and overlays the thermal image with the ability to peek behind it at the original normal capture as needed for easy diagnosis of whatever it is that you're looking at an HVAC system a problematic circuit or that freaking cat that's trying to avoid being taken to the vet Fleer claims this technique allows the image to have five times the detail a figure that they may have pulled out of their butts for all I can tell but whether it's four or five or six times it clearly works pretty darn well because the thermal image alone is much more difficult to read especially for a lay person like me and on top of still image capture it actually supports video Panorama and even timelapse capture which is actually a stroke of Genius for diagnosing problems that might develop slowly or be related to the time of day which is cool lus but uh why should I care what are these things even for and why the hell do you need one well for the first one I don't know about you but I care because they're just pretty freaking cool as for practical uses there are actually many thermal imagers like so many things were actually developed for military use allowing Personnel to detect heat signatures engine exhaust operating machinery and even people during the Korean War but today their applications range from medical use ever seen those cameras and arrivals at the international airport they're checking to see if you have a fever and you're going to spread disease to building optimization to check the effectiveness of insulation to law enforcement night vision goggles anyone to storm tracking to Home Inspection to you're watching you name it and what we've been enjoying is the way that suddenly a thermal camera allows us to validate manufacturer claims like oneplus's assertion that their quick charging technique keeps the phone running cooler than competing qualcom Quick Charge 3.0 and razors claim that the new blade 14 2016 Edition runs much cooler than last year's model neat right yeah I guess lonus but uh does this make the existence of higher end ones like the Fleer E60 which is like a $7,000 camera that you were showing off on Instagram a little while ago uh Superfluous great question but no I don't think so the app is surprisingly stable and functional but higher end models have features that are a must for industrial use swappable batteries SD recording rugged housing and the ability to operate without a phone attached to name a few and the fler one is not perfect we ran into compatibility issues for example with the iPhone SE and on the Android side of things the onward March towards USB type-c standardization reveals the problem with that future proofness issue that I alluded to before we actually tried using uh type c to microe adapter with the HTC 10 but we didn't have any luck getting it to work though your mileage may vary bottom line though it's not perfect and hopefully resolution durab and compatibility rise as cost continues to lower but if you need an affordable thermal camera for some reason then the Fleer one which Fleer is leaving with us to enrich our future reviews by the way which is awesome will likely be as welcome in addition to your diagnostic Arsenal as it is to ours speaking of being a welcome addition to Your Arsenal tunnel bear and my notes say something about summer and boarding planes and cars and trains does anyone board a car anyway the point is that tunnel bear is the simple VPN app that makes it easy to browse privately and enjoy a more open internet with tunnel bear turned on a couple of things happen number one is your connection is secured with AES 256bit encryption and two your online activity is kept private from your internet provider and advertisers who are 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