TELLTALE TELEVISOR.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 83, 18 January 1928, Page 3

TELLTALE TELEVISOR.

SCIENCE FINDS YOU OUT. All sorts of speculations are suggested by the demonstration in London or the "televisor," an instrument invented by John L. Baird (says the San Francisco Chronicle"). Baird claims to have gone the other television experimenters one better. They (so tar as he knows) have only been able to reproduce on their screens the images ot objects seen under strong light. Baud's televisor is said to see where the human eye.cannot, for it utilises the invisible infra-red rays of light. You may be in such darkness that you cannot see your hand before your face; but if one of the Baird televisors is focussed upon you the man at the other end of the wire has no difficulty whatever in seeing your image as a motion picture . ... Thus do the last vestiges of human privacy fall -Kefore the assault of science. The obvious application ol the Baird televisor has been assumed to centre about warfare. A. scouting party, moving, as it thinks, in total darkness, will have its every movement watched by the man at the televisor s receiving apparatus; an aeroplane hying too high to be picked up by searchlights will be seen by the televisor, and that without the knowledge of the pilot or other occupants. _ But it is in the possibility or its utilisation in domestic life that the televisor really opens a whole new held of doubt. "How will one be able to say, "Sorry old man, but 'I haven't a cent, ( when'the televisor belonging to ones impecunious acquaintance, shows all too plainly the roll of bills in one s hip pocket ? _