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MIT's New Camera Can Take 1 Trillion Frames Per Second

Posted by timothy on from the need-a-really-big-sd-card dept.

First time accepted submitter probain writes "MIT has made a camera that can take trillion frames per second! With this high speed capability, they can actually see the movement of photons of light across a scene or object. This is just mind-boggling." ExtremeTech has a nice video of the system, too. What would you like to see slowed down to such a degree?

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  1. Re:What by timeOday · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Not a new technology, just a variation on existing tech.

    I have never seen a new technology appear that was not met with that reaction on slashdot. I think people have some serious misconceptions about what science looks like when you follow it on a daily or weekly basis. Step functions exist only in theory.