Monday, August 20, 2012

A Camera That Sees Around Corners

Scientists are working on a camera that can see around corners.  Basically it bounces laser light off any surface further than what's blocking the image and measures the time it takes for the photons to bounce back.  Think radar only with light.


This isn't science fiction and theory.  They already have a working camera and there's a video showing it working at the first link.  I bet the military is interested in this...

http://web.media.mit.edu/~raskar//trillionfps/

http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/19/opinion/raskar-camera-corners/index.html

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