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MIT Develops Camera-Like Fabric
suraj.sun writes "Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a fabric made of a mesh of light-sensitive fibers that collectively act like a rudimentary camera. The fibers, which each can detect two frequencies of light, produced signals that when amplified and processed by a computer reproduced an image of a smiley face near the mesh. '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 Yoel Fink, an associate professor of materials science, who along with colleagues described the approach in a the journal Nano Letters. MIT suggested that the technology, if developed further, could give a soldier a uniform that would help him see threats in all directions. Optical fiber webs, by distributing the chore across a large area, would be less susceptible to damage in one area."
our high speed descent into the abyss. or, if nothing changes,....
the gravity of the dissolution of our illusions is slowing things a bit.
the lights (camera, action?) are coming up all over now. it may soon become more clear to us that our ONLY (soul) purpose here is to care for one another. failing that, which we're prone to do, we're merely passing through being distracted by the disappearing/guaranteed to fail, trappings of man'kind'.
so, catch your breath, pay attention (that's making a comeback), & get ready to meet yOUR maker(s),(based on where YOU believe we came from).
that doesn't necessarily mean that we're going anywhere, but it would appear as though many of us will be doing just that (leaving). see you on the other side of it?
Offtopic? It takes a moment to get that analogy but it is perfectly valid!
Anyways, the first thing I thought of when I saw this story was "I think I'll begin giving women a lot more clothes as presents. Everybody wins."
Are you really amazed or are you just tired of idiots assuming the absurd and completely illogical?
I am the lawn!