THE "TELEVISOR"

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 48, 26 February 1927, Page 20

THE "TELEVISOR"

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All sorts of speculations are bo^. gested by the demonstration in LondoV of the "televisor," an instrument in-i vented by John L. Baird. Baird claim.' to have gone the other' television «tJ percenters one better. They (so far aY : ho knows) have only been able to re-' , produco on their screens the images of objects Been, under Btrong light. , Baird's televisor i 8 said to see where the human oye 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 focused 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 before the assault of science. The obvious application of the i3aird 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 flying too high to bo picked up by searchlights will be seen by the televisor, and that without the knowledge of the pilot or other occupants. •■ f But it is in the possibility of its utilisation in domestic life that the televisor really opens a whole new field of doubt. How will one be able to ■ say, "Sorry, old man, but I haven't a cent," when the televisor belonging to! one's impecunious acquaintance shows all too plainly the roll of bills in one's' hip pocket? Or "I haven't a drop in the house," when the bottles under the bed are at that moment displaying their faked labels on the televisor screen of the acquaintance who ia telephoning* ;■'"