Once the original iPhone was opened up to third-party apps, it added an incredible amount of additional functionality to the device. So the NVC promises to give the iPhone 6 the ability to see in complete darkness.
There are lots of apps that claim to give smartphones night vision, but they're just using software tricks to boost what little light a phone's camera sensor can gather. The NVC iPhone 6 and 6 Plus case instead brings its own 720P video camera that's surrounded by a ring of eight infrared LEDs to illuminate objects up to 30 feet away, even when there's no visible light available.
The NVC case connects to your iPhone via WiFi, and packs its own 2,000-mAh battery good for at least a couple of hours of use so as not to nuke your phone's own battery. And because it's self-powered with a microSD card slot for storage, the case can even be used as a standalone remote camera that streams what it's seeing back to your handset.
The infrared light built into NVC can penetrate through some pigments and let you see through some materials. We have run some experiments with this and found that we could see through some plastics, liquids and inks. You can run your own experiments as well.
The creators of the NVC are using Kickstarter to help raise the necessary funds to put the night-vision case into production, and for the time being you can pre-order with a donation of $129. That gets you one of the first pre-production units as early as May of next year, but that's assuming the development of the prototypes and hardware is completed on schedule.
Unfortunately this is not available for the android user currently and I think it may not come to any android phones as there are a lot of different models currently available for the android. But wait, who knows? It may be available for some android phones :D
So while the production version will be priced closer to $200, it might be worth waiting until the NVC is officially available before ordering one. Unless you have a desperate need for night vision on your phone, and refuse to just turn on its camera's flash as a makeshift flashlight.
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