Camera captures photons moving through space

Speechless....Camera captures light particles moving through space at a trillion frames per second.

We have built an imaging solution that allows us to visualize propagation of light. The effective exposure time of each frame is two trillionths of a second and the resultant visualization depicts the movement of light at roughly half a trillion frames per second. Direct recording of reflected or scattered light at such a frame rate with sufficient brightness is nearly impossible. We use an indirect 'stroboscopic' method that records millions of repeated measurements by careful scanning in time and viewpoints. Then we rearrange the data to create a 'movie' of a nanosecond long event.

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MIT Media Lab Prints Out a Sweet-Sounding Flute with a 3-D Printer

This is some future shit going on here. Star Trek replicator meets auto-CAD meets HP Officejet 6000.

MIT Media Lab's Rapid Prototyped Flute MIT Media Lab

 The flute was created on an Objet Connex500 rapid prototyper, a 3-D printer that can print in multiple materials at the same time. The flute was constructed from a few different materials – a rigid material for the body, a softer one for the mouthpiece, another for sealing the air in at the proper places – during a print run of about 15 hours, during which time the materials were added on one thin layer at a time.