CornerCamera made at MIT lets you see through walls

Seeing through walls and spying around corners may sound like a superpower, but advances in technology are now making this a reality. A system, dubbed CornerCameras, developed at MIT, uses smartphone cameras to peer round corners and check what's on the other side. The ability to see around obstructions could help firefighters find people in burning buildings or enable self-driving cars to detect pedestrians in their blind spots. Seeing through walls may sound like a superpower, but advances in technology are now making this a reality. A system, dubbed CornerCameras, developed at MIT, uses smartphone cameras to peer round corners and check what's on the other side Most approaches for seeing around obstacles involve special lasers. Researchers shine cameras on specific points that are visible to both the observable and hidden scene, and then measure how long it takes for the light to return.