Ramesh Raskar: Imaging at a trillion frames per second

http://www.ted.com Ramesh Raskar presents femto-photography, a new type of imaging so fast it visualizes the world one trillion frames per second, so detailed it shows light itself in motion. This technology may someday be used to build cameras that can look "around" corners or see inside the body without X-rays.

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[Joe Shlanta]

WATCH IT WITH CC ON, ITS HILLARIUS

[Mc Rivers]

And I'm just sitting here masturbating...

[skeletk13]

this thing is clearly fake... you can't see light that has not reached your eyes... and even if those are some photons reflected from their miracle beam, you can't get that sort of precision high def image... that's if you have alien electronics with super electrons with no mass like they seem to have

[geppegep]

wow this guy is talented! much respect

[Herp Derp]

We're literally witnessing light, light as we know it travelling, in this instance it's from a single source so it's not spread everywhere and it'd look complicated in slow motion a bit. But this is just fucking a breakthrough!

[Aaron TrainStation]

if it dick that bullet

[Aaron TrainStation]

board 1 trillion friends per second

[Isaiah Wakeen]

i wish i had a trillion friends per second...

[SuperSadistHamada]

good product placement by coke!

[Pokemech]

This reminded me of E3 when they are talking about new games xD

[Pokemech]

Well, it makes a bit more sense once he explains it

[Pokemech]

IDK... this seems like a lot of bull S...

maybe a picture of light, but a video... capturing light on video... I don't believe it.