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Camera Clothing: MIT Scientists Weave Fabric Able to Take Photos
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by Jarrett Martineau | July 10, 2009 at 10:17 am
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MIT scientists have developed a "light-detecting" fabric that could be transformed into clothing that can take photographs.
Researchers have considered a potential application of this 'camera clothing' to be used in soldiers' uniforms — allowing them to capture "images all around the wearer".
This is the first time a fabric has been created that can capture images without a photographic lens.
This is way beyond having eyes in the back of your head, you could have eyes all around your body — now that's surveillance wear.
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.
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at 10:28 on July 10th, 2009
Wait until it hits mainstream we will all be on camera.
at 10:58 on July 10th, 2009
It's amazing, thanks for the piece.
at 13:48 on July 10th, 2009
It's amazing but very, very creepy.
at 16:51 on July 10th, 2009
We could then feed the images back to the brain and have a surround panoramic view, creating a super soldier of sorts.
Scary.
at 13:59 on July 11th, 2009
Even beyond that...I would guess it's not too many steps away from being able to become "invisible". If the suit fibres are able to photograph what is behind a person what is to say they can't then transfer the complete image to reflect out the front of the suit (or opposite side)?!
And if we are now privy to this information then they have already taken it well beyond what we know.