This woman is getting her temperature taken by a medical worker using an infrared thermometer at a train station in China. On-the-spot exams are being given to all passengers as a screen for the SARS virus.
That's cool, but beside my point.
That thermometer is freaking cool!!!
My first thought was, "Wow, that looks a lot like those laser-sights that Hollywood still insists on using in all gun-fight, action movies."
My second thought was, "Hey, that'd be pretty useful. No more habing teu tawk lyk tybbs when your doctor plunks one of those single-use temperature-reading strips under your tongue and proceeds to ask you questions about your medical history...or, worse yet, decides that thermometer needs to go someplace even more embarrassing."
My third thought was, "I want one!"
Of course, I'd then be tempted to walk down the street, pointing the thing at passers-by, which would likely get me arrested, or worse, shot, since the thing looks rather like a gun or...or a phaser from the original Star Trek.
But still, pretty freaking cool...and I still want one.
As an aside, I wonder how many of my fellow Americans looked at that picture and thought, "32 degrees? The blood would freeze in her veins!" Heh...ah, we users of Farenheit...