I know, that definitely got my attention too when we talked about it here a couple weeks ago.  A camera without lenses?  How do you pull THIS off?

Well, if you’re MIT, the first place you look is at the LCD screen.

Using a series of LCD displays that both capture and display images, MIT has assembled something they call a BiDi system.  The prototype of this device was introduced during a trade group meeting in Japan over the weekend, and folks at MIT had this to say about it:

“The BiDi Screen shares many attributes with projects that seek to capture gesture information,” said the researchers in a release describing the technology. “The difference is that the BiDi Screen can be implanted without cameras or projectors or lenses, allowing it to be as thin as existing LCD screens.”

So pretty soon, your camera might well be as thin as an LCD screen is today.  This should make for interesting issues coming up, like  for example the concept of the hidden camera.  It’s not so hard to hide a camera when it only needs to be as thick as an LCD screen.

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