Night-vision goggles are so mainstream. The Navy’s next gadget of choice is the “Wireless 3D Binocular Face Recognition System,” as in binoculars that can scan and recognize faces from 650 feet away, Wired reports.
According to a Jan. 16 contract announcement from the Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, a testing period of 15 months is planned to improve “stand-off identification of uncooperative subjects” during daylight. After scanning a face, the binoculars transmit the data to a database over a wireless network, where the data is then analyzed to determine a person’s identity, Wired says.