MIT scientists presented their prototype of a fascinating underwater camera on Monday.
It even works in the darkest of environments.
Thus, the newly proposed sound wave-energized camera holds potential to be a game changer for deep-sea explorers.
It’s also about 100,000 times more energy-efficient than other undersea cameras, the team said.
“We are building climate models, but we are missing data from over 95 percent of the ocean.
Overall, it seems to be a solid pathway toward solving the underwater battery conundrum.
Passing ships, marine life, tides and other such things create sound.
But what is sound, exactly?
Sound isn’t an intangible forceof some sort.
The medium could be air, water –anything with atoms, really.
That’s also why stuff sounds warped to us when we’re underwater.
Nothing is truly “warped,” per se.
Soundwaves just vibrate water molecules differently.
Those vibrations, in essence, vibrate it as well.
From there, they used sort of an old-fashioned way of obtaining a full-color image.
The same rules follow for color images we see on our computers.
Put together, you get the full pic.
It’s sent to a receiver back as soundwaves.
Altogether, this creates a sort of binary code to tell the receiver what the image data really is.
But the team said it wants to increase both that range and the unit’s memory capacity going forward.
