Pretty cool stuff, but has some immense limitations at the moment:

1. It can't capture a live event at femto-second resolution. It needs to illuminate a static object repeatedly with synchronised timing and heaps of processing.

2. You need a femto-second laser and amplifier, which need to be cryogenically cooled and with insane power requirements (looking at many kW of power consumption). These are very large and won't be dropping down in size for a while.

So yeah, cool but no mobile phone implementations anytime soon ...

Watched it a couple of months ago, was always interested about how all these things you take for granted as being different, when you actually look at them deep enough act very similar. Pressure, light, liquid, gas, all work incredibly similar. Which makes sense.

Love TED talks, they are the best.

I just want to see stuff get destroyed at 1 trillion frames a second.

Obviously I would want to watch an edited version that has been sped up a hell of a lot. Those slow-mo videos on YouTube are pretty cool to watch.

Awww, vid disabled owing to 3rd party complaints

Well, Ted has an embed feature ... (for whatever reason it isn't playing for me, but you can download it via a link inside the video)



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