10 practical and incredible uses for thermal photography

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A company called FLIR is behind what it says is the world's first thermal-imaging smartphone, called the Cat S60.

No, it's not a phone designed to photograph cats (although you could do that). It's "Cat" as in the brand of rugged construction machines that dig giant holes in the ground.

Putting a heat-vision camera into a $599 smartphone might sound like a gimmick, but we think it's pretty cool — thermal photography has a deep history of great applications.

Here are just a few of the incredible and practical ways the world has used thermographic imaging.

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