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.

[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.

[akondude]

Is this really practical...? I mean this camera is taking in extremely small amounts of light (and is probably doing it in darkness).. If it was during the day wouldn't there be tons of light that got into the camera?

[ghamzahn yuriko]

I like it.