The Torch Fire Detection Sensor
An alarm that uses infrared cameras to detect wildfires
I have an investor friend in London with technology-guru credentials going back 40 years.
In 1985, he was excited about an unlikely-sounding new company called Microsoft. In 1992, he believed that, one day, we would drive our cars guided by a satellite system called G.P.S. In 1996, he predicted that a new form of super-fast Internet, D.S.L., which worked on regular phone lines, would replace dial-up. In 1998, he e-mailed me about something he’d discovered called Wi-Fi, which he insisted was going to be big.
