Thought that the Flir One immediately would generate massive response. In my mind is a remarkable technical achievement and it's performance is good enough for it to be truly useful at the same time as the price is reasonable.
However, after talking to about 20 friends, most of them working with technical things, I've had very weak response.
Only one person so far fully understood how useful a device like this could be and he was very excited.
This has made me wonder if Flir simply was a few years ahead of time with the Flir One.
It seems like most people simply never heard of thermal imaging and even if they heard of it, they don't understand the concept or what it can be used for.
I suspect the vast majority of sales will be as a "cool toy", though I'm sure it will be genuinely useful to some people.
Like the E4, and then the hacked E4, it will increase the number of people using TICs.
My guess is that a major reason for releasing this product is to find new untapped markets for the small, low-cost TIC core.
Unfortunately it looks like for the forseeable future they will only be talking to potential high volume users of the Lepton core.
Will be interesting to see if any devboard type offering will be forthcoming, though if it does I doubt it will be cheap or unencumbered by the typical NDA bullshit.
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