A camera woven out of fiber

*I would call this totally weird, if I hadn’t been writing science fiction about

all-fabric computers for ages now. “Camera as furoshiki.” Okay, sure,

bring the noise, MIT.

http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/22870/

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Fabien Sorin, the postdoctoral researcher who developed the fiber camera, says that he made a 36-by-36 grid of fibers and connected the fiber’s semiconducting sensors to electrodes. When light hits the semiconductors, it displaces electrons within the material, creating an e