The one-year-old Walleye Technologies, run by local entrepreneur Chris Adams, uses radar beams to penetrate objects and then bounce back into a hand-held device that converts the beams into digital images.

Adams, who has founded a number of companies, said the black-and-white images are similar in concept to photos caught on cell-phone cameras. The images can be immediately displayed, stored, analyzed and transmitted.

Walleye, which hopes to roll out the devices next year, hopes to market the product to home contractors working on renovations, allowing them to see through walls for studs, wires and other objects.

Adams vowed Walleye’s hand-held system will cost much less and be affordable for carpenters or homeowners to purchase at a local hardware store.

He has previously founded other companies, such as Mosaic Technology and Senera Corp. Walleye has been funded with money from family members and friends, he said.

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