How long before someone makes shoes out of this stuff?

If you combine this with the cloth that can display images, you have some primo-grade camo there.

So the choise is get nicked for being clothed, or going about "indecently"?

Or do only "long lenses" get arrested by paranoid officers fighting terrorism?

Mine will have to be the see through mac then

Cloaking device. Project image seen on opposite side.

... Excuse me Sir, but was your jacket taking a photograph of this building which may be of use to terrorists...?

Mine's the 12MP coat...

Make some PJs out of the stuff and we can PROVE that aliens abduct us at night........

...if a police officer suspects you of being a terrorist taking photos you will be required to take your clothes off!

... getting Paris H to wear it inside-out...

so it work on roughly the same principle as an insect eye, the fly being the typical example.

I remember a great many innacurate recreations of how the fly sees. That is, the typical camera trick of producing many hexagonal duplicates of the same image, when in actual fact each hexagonal element would have actually been an individual pixel of the same image.

I wouldn't be suprised if DARPA showed an interest in this. The potential for highly discrete cameras with built in redundancy is certainly appealing in a military and espionage content.

Of course, the electronics required to make sense of the image would be the hardest factor to disguise, both in physical dimensions, and transmissions.

Aww, where's my black helicopter? Spose the grenage will have to do

Paparazzi Paradise

Taking images with cloth was done centuries ago. Or is the Turin Shroud a modern fake?

So perhaps this should be: Scientists mimic God's camera.

Mine's the one with the religious relics made out of plastic in the pocket.

She Shot Herselve - hot, wet beaver closeups

Well, I was going to say: No more turning tha pants inside out to make them last an extra day. But at least we can have fun with bed sheets made out of this material.

Oh come on - we've all seen Paris without her kit on.

If they put the camera on underpants and I put the underpants on inside out.

Ewwwwwwwwww!

(Gonna need a big wide angle lense mind *Wink*)

OK so you can make a patch of this material. But most fabrics are made of *continuous* fibres. So unless you make the fibre and *cut* each fibre to get its ends free to act as the sensor it will need to bend the fibre at each corner enough to allow light to enter.

It's the start of a neat idea.

Not to to put it on inside out, because nobody wants to see /that/ picture.

If a policeman using one of those backscatter x-ray imagers takes a picture of me through my camera clothes, will he arrest me as a potential terrorist because my clothes snapped him, or not, because he didn't see them in the image?

Mine's the one plugged into the video recorder...