Given high-frequency sound, vibration and harmonics in motorsport this has to be an interesting development not just for multi-media coverage, but for the cross-over between wind tunnel and CFD.
UPI (9/24) reports that Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute researchers in New York "say they've created new imaging technology that captures 250 pictures a second and is powered by water, sound, and surface tension."
They noted that the "newly created technology could lead to smarter and lighter cameras in cell phones, automobiles, and even autonomous robots." UPI continues, "The new 'camera' has an adaptive liquid lens comprised of a pair of water droplets that vibrate when exposed to a high-frequency sound, and that, in turn, change the focus of the lens."
The use of "imaging software to automatically capture in-focus frames and discard any out of focus frames," allows the researchers to "create streaming images from lightweight, low-cost, high-fidelity miniature cameras."
