imaging
Cameras

Incredible Thermal Imaging Video Of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev In Hiding

We previously saw the stunning thermal images that helped police confirm that Boston Marathon bombing suspect was indeed hiding in a boat, under a tarp. Now, the raw video of the camera in action has been released. It’s absolutely mesmerising.

20 March 2013

Science

First Ever Cellular-Level Video Of A Whole Brain Working

This video is the first time scientists have ever been able to image the whole brain of a vertebrate creature in such a way that you can see individual cells and simultaneously how they’re firing and behaving in real time. This is how the brain really, really works — and it’s amazing.

19 September 2012

Science

Stunning First Images From The World’s Most Powerful Digital Camera

Sitting on top of a mountain in Chile is the world’s most powerful digital camera. Known as the Dark Energy Camera, it has been fired up in an attempt to find the exotic stuff that gets all physicists excited. These are the first images it has produced.

7 September 2012

Science

Shortest-Ever Laser Pulses Can Image Electrons Orbiting Atoms

A team of scientists has smashed the record for the shortest-ever laser pulse, producing one that lasts just 67 billionths of a billionth of a second. That’s short enough to image individual electrons orbiting the nuclei of atoms.

5 September 2012

Gadgets

Open-Source Thermal Imager Turns Your Phone Into The Predator’s Eyes

This is so very cool: Andy Rawson has built a thermal imager that allows you to point your camera anywhere and get an instant temperature reading of your environment. It’s available for the iPhone, with an Android version on the way.

31 August 2012

Science

This Is What A Medical Scanner Looks Like Without Its Skin

CT scanners typically look like devices from Star Trek’s Enterprise. When you look at them without their smooth futuristic covers on, they look like tired engine parts from the Battlestar Galactica.

11 July 2012

Science

World’s Fastest Camera Catches Cancer At 36.7 Million Frames Per Second

There are plenty of insanely fast ways to acquire images, but engineers have now created the world’s fastest 2D camera. It’s so fast it can image 36.7 million fully 2D frames every second — and it could revolutionise the way we screen for cancer.

29 March 2012

Science

The Lens We’ll Look Through To Find A New Earth

We have heard a lot about exoplanets in the past year. But for all the talk about these planets, which orbit a star other than our sun, we still haven’t actually seen one.

17 August 2011

Science

How Researchers Fit A Blu-Ray Of Data Onto A Millimeter Of Glass

Researchers at Southampton University have devised a way to bend light passing through a glass wafer that reads 50GB of data in the same way that fibre optic cable does.

27 July 2011

Geek Out

Australian Airports Host ‘TeraHertz Energy’ Body Scanner Demo

Wait, they’re reading our auras now? Apparently we all naturally produce ‘terahertz energy’, which ThruVision’s TS4 uses to screen people in motion at up to 15m away. The imaging system picks up explosives, liquids, narcotics, weapons and plastics hidden under clothing without revealing body details.

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