{"id":2877,"date":"2016-04-18T22:32:36","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T14:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/18\/thin-flexible-sheet-camera-could-turn-any-surface-into-a-camera\/"},"modified":"2016-04-18T22:32:36","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T14:32:36","slug":"thin-flexible-sheet-camera-could-turn-any-surface-into-a-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/18\/thin-flexible-sheet-camera-could-turn-any-surface-into-a-camera\/","title":{"rendered":"Thin, flexible &#039;sheet camera&#039; could turn any surface into a camera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sddefault\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.2.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzA0LzE4LzdjL3NkZGVmYXVsdC5mOWM1Yy5qcGcKcAl0aHVtYgk1NzV4MzIzIwplCWpwZw\/f5f4fccf\/490\/sddefault.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Thin%2C+flexible+%27sheet+camera%27+could+turn+any+surface+into+a+camera&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F04%2F18%2Fflexible-sheet-camera%2F\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F04%2F18%2Fflexible-sheet-camera%2F&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>In the future, any surface could become a camera.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Columbia University&#8217;s Computer Vision Lab <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.columbia.edu\/CAVE\/projects\/flexible_sheet_cameras\/\">have developed<\/a>\u00a0a flexible &#8220;sheet camera&#8221; that can be attached to any surface, taking photos and videos from angles previously impossible.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/12\/16\/best-smartphone-camera-2015\/\">The search for the ultimate smartphone camera<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">For instance, the thin flexible sheet camera could be wrapped around a lamp post to record 360-degree videos, around the outside of a car to help drivers see blind spots, or even used as a regular camera that fits into a wallet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If such cameras can be made at a low cost (ideally, like a roll of plastic sheet), they can be used to image the world in ways that would be difficult to achieve using one or more conventional cameras,&#8221; the researchers say in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Q_Ve0XPVdTc\">video<\/a> about the tech (embedded below). <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/04\/18\/flexible-sheet-camera\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/flexible-sheet-camera\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Flexible Sheet Camera<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/flexible\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Flexible<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/lens\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Lens<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/flexible-lens\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Flexible Lens<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/cameras\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Cameras<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/eQWZ151I9T0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the future, any surface could become a camera. Researchers at Columbia University&#8217;s Computer Vision Lab have developed\u00a0a flexible &#8220;sheet camera&#8221; that can be attached to any surface, taking photos and videos from angles previously impossible. SEE ALSO: The search &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/18\/thin-flexible-sheet-camera-could-turn-any-surface-into-a-camera\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1147,2108,2110,2107,2109],"class_list":["post-2877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-cameras","tag-flexible","tag-flexible-lens","tag-flexible-sheet-camera","tag-lens"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}