A camera that can see around a corner? I know this sounds like something in a sci-fi movie or a superhero comic, but this is a real-world technology we’ve made possible with a camera that is ...

Now a team at Boston University has shown an algorithm and an ordinary digital camera can also look around corners without mirrors—and do so without such costly and complex equipment.

It's out of (line of) sight, but not out of view. The Camera Culture group at MIT's Media Lab has created CORNAR: Looking around Corners with Femtophotography. With CORNAR, femtosecond ...