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...Four years ago, Danny Kyllo was growing marijuana in his Oregon home, and he got busted - he admits that. But he's not crazy about how the cops found out. An Oregon National Guard soldier, using a thermal imaging device from outside Kyollo's house, noticed unusually high levels of heat coming from inside. The soldier tipped off the cops, the cops got a warrant, and Kyolo got arrested after police found dozens of marijuana plants growing in his attic. He was using halogen lamps to grow the stuff...
...case hinges on whether use of a thermal imaging device to divine what goes on inside a house constitutes a search, and thus should itself have required a warrant showing probable cause. As his lawyer, Kenneth Lerner, put it in his brief, "Since we don't permit police to break into people's homes, should we permit them to use technology to accomplish the same thing? The public justifiably expects that the walls of our homes sanctify a zone of privacy against the government, and represent physical barriers that assure our privacy," Lerner wrote in his brief...
...government's argument, curiously, is that it didn't learn anything through the thermal imaging. "Thermal imagers do not literally or figuratively penetrate the home and reveal private activities within," the U.S. Solicitor General's Office wrote in his brief. "Unlike a hypothetical sophisticated X-ray device or microphone that could perceive activity through solid walls - observations that would amount to searches - a thermal imaging device passively detects only heat gradients on exterior surfaces...
EASILY RECYCLED PAPER INVENTOR: TOSHIBA To recycle printed paper by removing ink chemically is expensive. But by reversing the procedure used to create thermal paper (the waxy stuff used in old fax machines and cash-register receipts), Toshiba engineers figured out a way to make Disappearing Ink, which vanishes with a blast of heat. There goes another excuse for not recycling...
...scholarship at Tuskegee University, Johnson earned his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering and a master's in nuclear engineering. He did thermal analysis of plutonium fuel spheres at the Savannah River National Laboratory and developed auxiliary cooling systems at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. At the famous Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, he worked as a systems engineer for the Galileo mission to Jupiter. He joined the Air Force, where he was assigned to the Strategic Air Command and studied nonnuclear-strategic-weapons technology and worked on the Stealth bomber program. He later went back to the Jet Propulsion...