What if you could wrap a camera around your car (or tank) for a 360-degree view or encircle a streetlight to boost security? You might even use it as wallpaper to check out what’s happening in the room next door.
"We are exploring ways to capture visual information in unconventional ways,” said Shree Nayar, a professor of computer science at Columbia. “If you could spread a camera out like paper or cloth, with similar material properties as fabric or paper so you could wrap it around objects or car or a pole.