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by ruufu 171 days ago
Well I hope you never get into this business because I doubt your glasses will work in the dark or on red eye flights.
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I have a sneaking belief that the video clip showing a rack of cookies on a brightly lit counter wasn't shot in the dark or on a red eye flight, so that's a non-sequitur.

Digital camera sensors are all inherently extremely sensitive to infrared anyway and can see quite well in the dark with nothing more than an IR LED if you don't add a physical filter over the sensor, soooo...