A camera that can see around corners
http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/19/opinion/raskar-camera-corners/index.html?hpt=hp_bn7
Yes, this is quite likely useless as it is, but the techniques developed to accomplish such a useless thing are likely to be very useful indeed. I recall reading about the light-speed photography before, but apparently didn’t blog on it. I recall thinking at the time that the value was quite limited, but I certainly didn’t see the potential of looking around corners or peering into bodies. I bet that was an interesting programming project to be involved in! Too bad all the cool stuff goes to graduate students instead of people like me.
