If You Look For Bigfoot You Should Get One Of These (Video)

In 2015, long time thermal imaging company Flir introduced a smartphone accessory called the Flir One that gave users a superpower: it let them see in the dark. Today at CES, all the work that went into miniaturizing that image sensor for the Flir One has manifested in a new form. It’s called the Flir Scout TK, and it’s the company’s smallest standalone thermal camera.

The Scout TK won’t see everything, everywhere in the dark — you’ll have to look at the more expensive Scout models for that — but it’s powerful enough to pick up heat signals from humans, other animals, or inanimate objects from as far as 100 yards away. Using it is simple: just put the eyepiece up to your eye, frame up your shot on the 640 x 480 display, and click a button on the top. (Short press for photo, long press for video.)

The draw here is that the submarine-shaped Scout TK is small. It’s four inches long, less than two inches wide, and weighs only six ounces. The camera also works in complete isolation from a smartphone, unlike the Flir One.

Next to most of Flir’s products — which are used by the military, first responders, Formula One, at border crossings, and on drones — the Flir One was almost a novelty. But Flir’s newest pocket-sized thermal camera is rugged: it’s weather-sealed, can handle temperatures between -4 to 104 degrees Fahrenheit (-20 to 40 degrees Celsius), and can survive drops on hard surfaces. It also has a five-hour battery life (and will last “months” on standby, according to Flir), and can record and store 4 hours of video along with 1,000 images.

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