Anything else I should check?
None of these cameras measure things in Kelvin, the only temperature scale that matters. Disappointing.
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They do actually, it's just that they convert it to Celsius right before displaying the value on the screen
It doesn't count if you can't see it!
Kelvin is the only legitimate way to measure temperature. Everything else is trivia. Duh.
Edit: I don't have time for your downvotes. It's 277 degrees outside and I don't have a clean sweater.
You are actually upvoted, it's just shown in Celsiusvotes.
I should have realized!
ROFL!
277 degrees? RIP
277 kelvin would be a nice temperature tho
I just said Kelvin was the only legitimate way to measure temperature. Of course 277 degrees Kelvin.
I was making a joke, if a pedantic one. You don't measure Kelvin in degrees, it's not °K, it's just K. So 4 degrees Celsius is 277 kelvin.
Ohh two can play that game, your cited resolution has been superseded in 1967~
https://www.bipm.org/en/committees/cg/cgpm/13-1967/resolution-4
Edit: and for extra pedantry, the unit is spelled lowercase, the temperature scale uppercase c:
Used to have one of these too.
not what I expected to see in the comments of this post 
On the contrary, this is exactly what I expected to see in the comments of this post.
How about that? Did you expect a hamster in infrared?
No.
Nobody ever does....
....sigh.
That hampter is runnin oh boi
Just because nobody asked:
I have a phone with a thermal imager too!
I mostly use it to brag to people about how I have a phone with a thermal imager!
But here is a demonstration that glass will reflect a bit of thermal radiation, but is completely opaque to thermal behind it:
As long as you aren't touching the glass, wherein the glass will conduct your thermal signature:
And then if you take the hand away, the signature remains on the glass for several minutes!
As a bonus, my phone also has a microscope, and I learned that my facial hair is sometimes triangular:
Ooh that's pretty rad!
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Looking for a phone with this, a Geiger counter, and a light spectrum analyzer
Also a hardware keyboard, headphone jack, and runs Linux
Ok so you want a cyberdeck
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Now, this technology is new to me, but I believe that's Homer Simpson in the oven, rotating slowly. His body temperature has risen to 400 degrees. He's literally stewing in his own juices!
d'oh
How hot is your toilet water please.
A picture is worth a thousand words.
Are you sure you're dull? This is thrilling
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