By 2050, there might be a Japanese elevator to space

Decades ago, people only dreamed about traveling to space. Then they only dreamt about landing on the moon. Both of these became reality though. And then humans built a space station. So it would make sense that things that we can only dream about today will someday be real. One such thing is an elevator to space. Sound crazy? The Japanese are currently working to create just that. More specifically, Obayashi Corp is hoping to build an elevator to space by 2050.

In 1998, Sony accidently sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people's clothes.

The cameras had special lenses that use infrared light (IR) to see through some types of clothing. It primarily works on dark colored, thin clothing - like swimsuits. The main factor is how well the fabric absorbs IR light waves. It's not for regular digicams, but rather for camcorders with a IR night vision mode, and the resolution is low. 

Sony recalled the camcorders when they found out about this, but the night vision camcorders that they subsequently released can still be modified to give back the see-through-clothing functionality. A lot of people have abused this technology for nefarious purposes.