And the next wave of super-sight technology is about to hit reality, allowing people to actually see through walls.
Every time the boat tilted with the wind, toilets overflowed and spilled into halls, seeping through walls to floors below.
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Earlier this month, the forward-thinkers over at DARPA announced plans to develop new technologies capable of identifying human life through walls.
His reminiscences revolve around a man named Django (Jeff Bridges), who urged his super-recruits to run through walls and peer into the future.
Most likely aren't aware that the same technology, capable of seeing through walls and clothes, has also been rolling out on U.S. streets.
We got to see a scope that could spot enemies through walls and shoot through thick cover after charging up an armor-piercing round.
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The home-networking method with the most steam behind it is wireless, because it avoids the considerable hassle of running network cable through walls.
Environments are destructible: you can break furniture and use it on enemies, burst through walls to open up new areas, and so forth.
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The sculpture, taller than every entrance to the room, elicits the anxious feeling that it will grow even bigger, pushing through walls and ceiling.
Believe it or not, devices used to see through walls are far from revolutionary, but hey, we'll take every one we can get.
Running cables in an older home for phone, TV, digital subscriber line or networking is tough, and most of us aren't capable of running them through walls where they won't be seen.
Compared with other forms of wireless technologies, such as regular Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, the radio waves used by white space devices will be able to travel longer distances and more easily through walls.
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We'll use "aimbots" (programs that automatically aim and shoot for us) or "wall hacks" (programs that allow you to see and even walk through walls) to gain every advantage in an online shooting game.
The program, known as "Biometrics-at-a-distance, " would essentially combine two pre-existing Pentagon projects: the Radar Scope, a device that can see through walls, and 2009's LifeReader, a system that uses Doppler radar to detect heartbeats.
As Technology Review's Physics arXiv blog reports, they've devised a means to modify a standard 802.15.4 wireless network (commonly used by home automation services like ZigBee) to actually "see" movement through walls, and with some degree of accuracy, no less.
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Lovingly nicknamed Anna Konda (no explanation necessary), the Norwegian bot was assembled using 20 hydraulic motors powered by a regular fire hose, whose 100 bars of pressure give it enough strength to break through walls and even lift a car right up off the ground.
He adds that teams from the army, the fire service and border guards had been drilling holes through concrete walls and pushing through oxygen cylinders and water bottles in an attempt to keep those trapped alive until they could be freed.
Lampposts and other items from the streets were hurled through the walls of the ground floor.
The old factory floor has broken through its walls and now spans oceans and borders.
Due to their size and energy, those particles can pass through the walls of a spaceship.
They can also eat through plaster walls, which provides the calcium content they need for their shells.
Some dealers once shot through the walls of my house in Los Angeles when I was inside.
At the time, a central master bathroom was visible from the living room and kitchen through glass walls.
Thirty-one workers were inside the Upper Big Branch mine when an explosion ripped through its walls on Monday afternoon.
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Our design objects and culture radiate a democracy of human feeling that blasts through cultural walls with light sword efficiency.
My longtime neighbor dislocated her hip, and through the walls of our apartment building, we could hear her shrieking in pain.
Transmissions in the millimeter wave band do not pass through building walls.
The lads have run through brick walls for the club this season.
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