Introducing Applied Electrodynamics. What would the world look like if we could see beyond visible light, across the entire electromagnetic spectrum? The way waves interact with matter, at every wavelength, encodes far more than just shape and color. It reveals internal structure, temperature, chemical composition, and more: a whole... layer of the physical world that's invisible to us today. That's what we're building at Applied Electrodynamics: the infrastructure to fully perceive the physical world. WaveSight is the first piece of the puzzle. It brings radio frequencies into human perception, revealing the internal structure of objects behind opaque layers. Designed for construction crews, industrial inspectors, and security personnel. See through walls:show more

so cool

Oh hell yea dude, this is exciting! Whatever hardware you end up developing, please name one "Mantis" or "MS" after the legendary eyes of the Mantis Shrimp!!

Nature is a big inspiration for us. The only animal that can see circular polarization!

I worked on a hardware product like this back in 2011 but it sadly never shipped. I still think it's a great idea and I hope this works! See my essay on it: "A bicycle for the senses"

Such an easy win to just add an AI image layer on top that simply says: Turn this into a photorealistic image preserving, and carefully enhancing, the shape and positional details with high fidelity.

Good point and we are experimenting with it. But more than anything we value deterministic precision in our product.

Yes makes sense. But maybe a little upscaling and careful enhancement a la @Magnific_AI is probably going to be a major selling tool for this, even with legal caveats added.

🤯 incredible!

Does it have to be pressed against a wall to see pipes that may be leaking? How much depth can it perceive?

It doesn’t need to be against the wall, it can image from a distance. We can see up to 10m, but have strict guardrails baked into the imaging algorithms for privacy reasons.

That sounds pretty fuckin sick

Thank you.

This is wild, totally want to be one of your first users, how can I make sure that happens? 👀

We have a preorder form on our website.

tebrikler!

that is really cool wow

Absolutely rad

waiting for the glasses version.

so cool bil! congrats to you and the team!

Thank you Josh!

This sounds like the beginning of a horror movie where the camera starts seeing the supernatural then everyone goes insane.

Making the unseen seen

Post the price free and clear? Why do we have to sign up for anything just to see the price? Interesting product but register to pre-order? When I go buy food, the price is right there. When I buy a Tesla Model Y, the price is right there. A donut? Yup, the price is there.

Now this is cool.

Rockstar team. Congratulations! This is going to be incredible.

@samsheffer Congrats on the launch guys! Can’t wait to watch you grow.

@ycombinator All the best you guys!

@ycombinator Thanks Manan!

Very cool, would love to learn more.

Public access to this, finally 🙏

Just applied for pre-order. This is magnificent.

Can it see if I make my parents proud 🥲 Jokes aside congratulations!

please help people use this in the preservation of old structures (instead of knocking down and replacing with cheap garbage.) I can tell you guys like real things because you used a CRT in the video

We are actively exploring this with preservation specialists.

that's wonderful to hear

Would love to meet!

So, handheld radar based on automotive short-range chips, some SLAM for a synthetic resolution increase, and a mobile SoC bolted on for visualization? Judging from the periodic artifacts in the images(and the fact that you don't show *any* live footage), low GHz range?

Seeing through walls sounds sci fi but the inspection use case makes sense

@pascal_app 👀👌 let's go!

@Scobleizer I think about this all the time! Mostly what my house would look like if the WiFi was like a light bulb yet penetrated walls as WiFi does. Great to see someone bringing something useful to market.

This is nice.

Congrats Bilgehan! You made us proud.

So basically, use Wifi signals, backmodel it via machine learning, get the shapes, and get 3d scans beyond what is visible

As a physics nerd, this is everything