The first phone with a thermal camera tells you how hot you are

BARCELONA — Remember the FLIR One thermal camera that attached to your phone, giving it thermal vision capabilities? A new rugged phone from Cat has a similar camera built in. 

The company showed off a prototype of the device a day ahead of Mobile World Congress on Sunday, and though it appeared to have some serious battery issues, it was one of the most interesting phones we've seen in Barcelona so far. 

It's called the Cat S60 and has two cameras that work together: a regular one provides an outline of objects as seen in visible light, and a thermal camera shows thermal footprints, normally invisible to the naked eye. The two cameras work together. 

The company rep showcased the thermal camera mode at Mobile World Congress by covering the regular camera with his finger; you could still see the thermal vision on the phone's screen. Thermal cameras allow you to see infrared light, electromagnetic radiation that you normally cannot. Read more...