{"id":30100,"date":"2016-09-12T21:48:43","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T04:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/scientists-can-now-read-books-without-opening-them"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:16:33","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:16:33","slug":"scientists-can-now-read-books-without-opening-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/scientists-can-now-read-books-without-opening-them","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Can Now Read Books Without Opening Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-can-now-read-books-without-opening-them.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Interesting \u2014 imagine now how this can be used in so many areas (legal\/ law enforcement, government, etc.) <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Because that\u2019s basically what researchers from <a href=\"http:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2016\/computational-imaging-method-reads-closed-books-0909\" target=\"_blank\">MIT<\/a> and Georgia Tech are able to do with a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techtimes.com\/articles\/174327\/20160819\/hyperspectral-imaging-reveals-images-hidden-in-ancient-mexican-manuscript-codex-selden.htm\" target=\"_blank\">imaging<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/56054-new-tech-could-read-closed-books.html\">system<\/a> that can <strong>read<\/strong> individual pages without opening the cover.<\/p>\n<p>So far the system, designed by researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (<strong>MIT<\/strong>), has been able to distinguish the lines on the first nine pages in a stack of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/ncomms\/2016\/160909\/ncomms12665\/full\/ncomms12665.html\">paper<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MIT<\/strong> researchers are developing a <a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/tech\/tech-news\/Dual-cameras-to-stick-with-high-end-iPhone-models-next-year-says-analyst\/articleshow\/54266649.cms\" class=\"\">camera<\/a> system that can <strong>read<\/strong> closed books.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/alltechnews.org\/2016\/09\/13\/scientists-can-now-read-books-without-opening-them\/\">http:\/\/alltechnews.org\/2016\/09\/13\/scientists-can-now-read-bo...ning-them\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting \u2014 imagine now how this can be used in so many areas (legal\/ law enforcement, government, etc.) Because that\u2019s basically what researchers from MIT and Georgia Tech are able to do with a new imaging system that can read individual pages without opening the cover. So far the system, designed by researchers at Massachusetts [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,1493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-law-enforcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30100"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66270,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30100\/revisions\/66270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}