How to see around corners

This video shows how scientists at the MIT Media Lab (www.media.mit.edu/) reconstruct a hidden object using scattered laser light. Future applications may include seeing in dangerous or inaccessible locations, such as inside machinery with moving parts, or in highly contaminated areas.

Read the original research: http://www.nature.com/ncomms/journal/...

Check out the researchers' project URL: http://cornar.info
And first author's web page http://web.mit.edu/~velten/www/

Animations by Sam Woolf: http://www.samwoolf.net/
Music by Jay Marsh http://www.jaymarshmusic.com/

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[YoCC270]

lol came here after watching this on ted, had to do more research

[Virgil Melinte]

This will make hide and seek game different for the next generations.

[zakharias aliong]

I have an experience. One night when I was sleeping in the dark room, I suddenly saw a plenty blue laser dot plied me. I thought maybe someone secretly using camera like this to annoy me. then I felt there was something make my eyelids open. I know that's not black magic but science. What's name or type of the camera like this? where I can buy? and how much the price?

[pmamba45]

That's it, i'm pulling the plug out on Xbox one when I leave the lounge for bedtime.

[tomsan84]

sure; rescue missions, firefighters, police, traffic/car, military, medical use, security camera's, mining, etc. And the're probably tons more applications.

[akondude]

explain then oh great visionary how could you make this practical

[tomsan84]

its not about the idea, its about developing a machine that is able to dinstinguish light particles half a milimiter apart from eachother. could you do THAT?

[tomsan84]

You have little insight. you can filter wavelenghts of light ofcourse. It may not be practical yet, but I can think of a few great ways of using this.

[tomsan84]

looking around corners, without actually looking around corners, is not practical? You sir have no imagination

[afichter tania]

Great scientist.

[nzeugner karole]

This is not practical.