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Bud, if this stuff was used as light diffusers in the bar, nobody would realize they were cameras!
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____Flexible camera: A radical approach to imaging


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FLEXIBLE SHEET CAMERA: Computer Vision Lab at Columbia Engineering



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This is a marvelous invention! Watch the video above to learn how this techno-miracle works.

But the name is misleading — it isn't really a "camera", it's a lens that cameras can use. Or perhaps it should be described as a non-electronic view screen that cameras can shoot images from.

The small lens the lady is holding below is from the part of the video which demonstrates how these lenses can not only deliver a standard view of what they face when they're flat, but they can also be bent to create a wide-angle view of the area, which includes more of the area on the left and right.





Although nothing I've read yet about these lenses have suggested it, I think they could be used to make wraparound glasses which would provide the wearer's eyes with an undistorted view of everything he could see by turning his eyes left or right without moving his head.

With normal prescription glasses or flat-lens sunglasses, your eyes can actually turn further to the sides than the lenses reach, so you have to turn your head to see something clearly at the extreme limits of your vision.

Pivothead?? glasses are designed to do this using built-in cameras, but the design I'm proposing would be less complicated, because it's optical rather than electronic, and probably lighter for that reason.

Still, the Pivothead glasses actually record images — a terrific ability in itself. (And they look so damn cool, too. )

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Those glasses read like "Bond" gear.
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