This Camera Can See Around Corners [VIDEO]

Scientists at MIT have created a camera that can capture images of objects hidden around corners.

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The camera’s titanium sapphire laser bounces pulses from the camera. Because they move so fast, the pulses are able to bounce off any kind of surface, like a wall or floor — no mirrors required.

The result: light in motion at two trillion frames per second. The camera might have your DSLR beat, but it is still being tested and won’t be available for purchase just yet. In the future, MIT scientists say it could make it to market, but the camera still needs a full-fledged research laser to work.

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In December, MIT showed off a video of light traveling the length of a plastic bottle. The researchers have built on that technology to capture light bending around a corner.

MIT is calling the camera “the slowest fastest camera” because pictures take a long time to process, said Ramesh Raskar, associate professor at MIT Media Lab.

“How can I take a portable camera that has a tiny flash and create the illusion that I have all these umbrellas and sports lights and so on?” Raskar said in December. “With our ultrafast imaging … we can recreate a new photo by creating the illusion that the photons started somewhere else.”

Watch the video to see the spy camera in action.

Photo courtesy of MIT.

This story originally published on Mashable here.

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