A camera that makes the speed of light seem slow

Posted at 12:36 PM on December 13, 2011 by Molly Bloom (1 Comments)
Filed under: Science, Tech

What happens when you can capture one trillion frames per second? You make the speed of light look really, really slow. Since I don't have a PhD in physics, I'll let the researchers from MIT Media Lab's Camera Culture group explain how they did it:

This imaging system is a spinoff from another Camera Culture project -- developing a camera that can see around corners. Another MIT researcher is developing a radar technology that allows us to see through concrete walls.

Pretty soon, there will be little we can't see -- with the proper technology, of course.

But while being able to see an advancing light wave is really something, I'm still pretty impressed with a mere 1,000 frames per second:

Comments (1)

Wow that is really cool!

Posted by Benet | December 15, 2011 5:24 PM

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