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By Robert Wilonsky in News You Can Actually Use, Actually

Wednesday, Jul. 1 2009 @ 11:03AM

Southern Methodist University

Wired's Danger Room blog this morning visits the SMU campus, where Electrical Engineering Associate Professor Marc Christensen is helping the military create a powerful paper-thin camera that uses low-resolution sensors to create a hi-res image. Notes David Hambling, "troops and unmanned aircraft could be the first to benefit" from the invention, code name "Panoptes" after a figure from Greek mythology. Back in March, SMU provided some details; Wired has much more today, including what "Panoptes" stands for: "Processing Arrays of Nyquist-limited Observations to Produce a Thin Electro-optic Sensor." Duh.

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Panoptes Floptes says:

And this camera will most likely be used against the public, or for some perv's pathetic self interest. Thanks, how about we try and fix some larger problems first before we worry about tiny cameras...

Posted On: Wednesday, Jul. 1 2009 @ 11:29AM

Heywood U. Buzzoff says:

Hey, Panoptes, humans have always sought to innovate and then ask two questions:

1) How can I make money from this?
and
2) Can this be used for porn?

You prev's self interest may be the next internet billionaires nest egg!

Posted On: Wednesday, Jul. 1 2009 @ 12:08PM

ignoreLander says:

The is no question that this will be used against the citizens of this country.

Posted On: Wednesday, Jul. 1 2009 @ 1:11PM