can the kinect infrared damage our eyes?!

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The spectrum of light ranges from Ultraviolet (UV) to Visible Light and on to Infrared (IR) light. The UV and IR light is invisible to the human eye, but can none the less have dangerous effects. The visible light, that provides us with color vision represents just a small, part of the electromagnetic spectrum. Ultraviolet (or UV) light can damage the eyes in several ways. Excessive exposure to the lowest wavelengths of UV light can cause damage to the cornea, as well as the lens. Infrared light can cause damage to both the lens and cornea, as well as the retina.

We know that the entire spectrum from IR to UV is harmful when we talk about lasers. How harmful simply depends on intensity and exposure time. No IR laser has ever been tested scientifically on hundreds of eyes for hundreds of hours. Only time will tell us whether this exposure is harmful. For now, you'll just have to hope that MS knows what it's doing. If you don't trust them (or you don't trust science that is virtually untested), then don't use Kinect.

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Dude seriously. . . . . .the kinect does not "shoot out infrared rays" YOU DO! Infrared can not be seen by our eyes but can be felt as heat, which is a type of radiation just like visible light we see.

So essentially we are walking infrared light bulbs, unless your a plant or dead you keep emitting this light so kinect uses the infrared radiation you produce to read your body.

Remember the movie Predator? Remember how he could only see infrared light, thus humans and animals were all red and multicolored while the rest of the environment was grey? He saw infrared light.

Also infrared can only hurt you if something too hot like a fire or hot coffee.

Thing to note we have technology that can see all wavelengths of light, and it converts this information into visible light for us to see.