18 Incredible Survival Uses for This Surprisingly Affordable Thermal Imaging Tool

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Thermal imaging may seem like it's something you only see in sci-fi movies or by fire and police departments, but recently civilians are beginning to use it for a variety of reasons.

As the use of technology in general expands, so does its accessibility. In particular, several companies currently are introducing thermal imaging cameras specifically designed for civilians.

A recent item now available in the marketplace is the FLIR Scout TK, which was specifically made with consumers in mind.

It has a lot of unique features (especially for survivalists) that are making a lot of people want one. However, before purchasing any new survival tool it's important to do your own research.

You may be curious how many survival uses this tool has. Once you discover just how many I'm sure you'll be just as impressed as I was. This versatile tool can assist just about anyone!

After the break learn more about the FLIR Scout TK and its endless amount of survival uses!

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61 Comments

  3. Jo Ann Tolley said:

    We purchased a Flir last year and we love it. You can adjust the colors from red, white and I believe green for hot/cold. We had issues with bear and I wanted to know what was out there on our property.

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  4. Anthony Gervasi said:

    Would like to see a list without hitting next for three things…thats called clickbait, and I would rather not see that on your page

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  8. Todd Brown said:

    Really like my FLIR ONE. Attaches to my phone and works great.

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  15. Bobb Loblaw said:

    I wouldn’t call ”Show-off – and impress your geeky friends” or ”Search – for Bigfoot, The Yeti, Lithgow Panther or some other as yet unproven monster” an incredible survival use and I definitely wouldn’t call $600 affordable.

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  21. David DeVore said:

    Could you drag it out to even more pages that I have to hop through? I mean 6+ isn’t enough.

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  30. Eric Beatty said:

    I can get a storm proof lighter for about $50. It will average about 3000 lights. if I spend $600 on them I will have 12. At 3000 lights per lighter, thats 36,000 lights. Divided by 1 light per day for a fire a day, that’s nearly 10 years worth of fire starting for the same price.

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  34. Shura No Hanna said:

    Gotta love how company’s believe ALL AMERICANS are rich 600$ isn’t affordable,for that price I could build my own and mine would be better

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  35. Anonymous said:

    Up until recently it was possible to modify the firmware to increase the resolution and imaging capabilities of these devices. The interesting thing is that they were using the same core thermal imaging sensor hardware for various models and then crippling and limiting the full resolution potential in firmware of the lower priced models. This means the $600 version and the $4000 version had the same guts. Unfortunately they realized people were modifying them for increased capabilities and took measures to prevent this in newer firmware releases. Some people would call it stealing. I say that if you paid for the product it was yours to do with as you wish.

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  36. Terry L Stephenson said:

    I love what you call affordable..$600 for the TK is affordable..hell can I have some money then for one?

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  42. John Tardif said:

    It’s nice , but at almost $600 is it worth it ?
    I’m considering the fact that I can buy a CAT S60 Smart Phone with FLIR for around the same price , and get a phone , a video camera that also takes still pictures , FLIR and a lot more . So why pay almost $600 for just the monocular ?

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  43. John Fazio said:

    I had a Seek Thermal iPhone camera. They are like $200 and turn any iPhone into a thermal Night Vision camera. Problem is the resolution isnt good when moving. Standing still they are great. All these new cheap ones are the same like that. For Night vision you can move with, you need to spend $2000 or more. Companies do loan money on them at 20% interest.

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  46. Stephan P. Cinzano said:

    No end-user license agreement = not even the thinnest justification exists to consider it stealing. Same reason the cable companies back in the 80’s should of jumped in a lake when they didn’t like customers building or buying their own descrambler boxes. Don’t want customers using a certain feature? Too bad. Implement better security.

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  47. Anonymous said:

    Or sell more units at a lower margin by not crippling the hardware. I would pay that price for twice the resolution.

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  48. Anonymous said:

    You can have arms like an octopus with bic lighters in each, how is that equivalent to having thermal vision capabilities in pitch darkness?

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