Scientists turn clothes into cameras
Boffins have created a light-detecting fabric which could be used to create clothes able to take photos.Less than a millimeter in diameter, the fibres are composed of layers of light-detecting materials nested one within another.
Researchers from MIT claim that when weaved into a web, they act as a flexible camera able to take basic images all around the wearer.
They hope that in the future the material could be used in a soldier's uniform allowing him to look in all directions and identify threats that are to his side or even behind him.
But I say forget that, this would mean that as long as I had my 'camera jacket' on, it wouldn't matter if I accidentally left my camera at home.
"This is the first time that anybody has demonstrated that a single plane of fibers, or 'fabric,' can collect images just like a camera but without a lens," said Associate Professor Yoel Fink.
"This work constitutes a new approach to vision and imaging."
LINKS
MIT
"This work constitutes a new approach to vision and imaging."
LINKS
MIT
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