Mike Hawkins, the officer who carried the youngest victim of the 2012 Aurora shooting out of the theatre, comforts the child's grieving fatherSince the shooting
Reported by CapitalBay 15 hours ago.
Officer who carried dying girl out of theatre after Aurora shooting comforts her father
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Aurora teen robbed on RTD bus, shot twice; police seek two suspects
An Aurora man who was robbed on an RTD bus and shot over his cell phone, said he hopes someone will come forward with information.
Reported by Denver Post 5 hours ago.
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A father's heartbreak: Dad of Aurora's youngest victim remembers
As jury selection gets underway in the Aurora theater shooting, the father of 6-year-old Veronica Moser-Sullivan, the youngest victim, tries to keep his daughter's memory
Reported by CapitalBay 54 minutes ago.
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Aurora police on scene of fatal pedestrian accident
Aurora police are on the scene of a fatal auto-pedestrian accident. Photos on social media indicated the accident involved a motorized wheelchair.
Reported by Denver Post 22 hours ago.
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Hundreds in line for individual questioning in theater jury selection
CENTENNIAL — The first week of jury selection for the Aurora movie theater shooting trial ended Friday with hundreds in line to be called back for individual questioning.
Reported by Denver Post 20 hours ago.
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International Truck Dealer Scott McCandless Named Dealer Of The Year
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 23, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Scott McCandless, president of Aurora, Colorado based McCandless Truck Center, LLC, was named the 2015 Truck Dealer of the Year. The national award focuses on excellence in dealership performance, as well as industry and community...
Reported by PR Newswire 20 hours ago.
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Scott McCandless of Colorado Named Truck Dealer of the Year
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 23, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Tears showed in the eyes of Scott McCandless and his wife, Melissa, of Aurora, Colo., when he received a standing ovation for being named the 2015 Truck Dealer of the Year today at the 52nd annual American Truck Dealers...
Reported by PR Newswire 17 hours ago.
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Aurora police investigate two motorcycle crashes, one fatal
One person is dead and another seriously injured after two crashes involving motorcycles took place within an hour of each other in Aurora, officials said.
Reported by Denver Post 2 days ago.
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Arapahoe cold case unit solves 2007 attempted murder case
A California man was sentenced Monday to 24 years in prison for a 2007 attempted murder in Aurora that was solved by the cold case unit of the 18th Judicial District Attorney's Office.
Reported by Denver Post 2 days ago.
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Graebel Announces 9th Annual Global Relocation Policy Summit Dates
The ninth annual Global Relocation Policy Summit will take place on February 24 through 26 at the Company's world headquarters in Colorado
(Aurora, COLO USA) (PRWEB) January 26, 2015
This week, Graebel University has announced that the ninth annual Global Relocation Policy Summit will take place on February 24 through 26 at the Company's world headquarters in Colorado. The leading industry event attracts over 100 global mobility, talent management and human resource executives annually. In addition to hands-on workshops, keynote speakers and peer networking, breakout sessions that will cover best practices in U.S. and global relocation programs will be conducted throughout the three-day event.
This marks the ninth year that Graebel University will host the Global Relocation Policy Summit in the Americas. Participants will be eligible to earn re-certification credits for Worldwide ERC® credentials including the Certified Relocation Professional® (CRP) and Global Mobility Specialist® (GMS) designations.
Last year, Graebel Relocation earned the first-place Americas EMMA award for the 2014 Global Relocation Policy Summit research report. The document summarized findings and data collected from the executives who attended the Summit. This complimentary report is available upon request to marcom1(at)graebel(dot)com or from a Graebel Relocation representative.
Additional thought leadership events are planned in the Americas, EMEA, and APAC regions in 2015.
About Graebel Companies, Inc.
Founded in 1950, Graebel Companies is a privately-held global organization that offers the full suite of employee and commercial office relocation, mobility management, workplace and consultative services for the Global 100 and Fortune 500. On-the-ground services are managed in 165 countries on six continents. The world headquarters is located in Aurora, Colorado USA with in-region centers throughout the Americas, APAC and EMEA regions. Known for its industry-first innovations, Graebel holds numerous quality and security credentials, and has earned accolades from its clients and from within its industry for its best-in-practice quality and market intelligence initiatives. To learn more visit: http://www.graebel.com
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(Aurora, COLO USA) (PRWEB) January 26, 2015
This week, Graebel University has announced that the ninth annual Global Relocation Policy Summit will take place on February 24 through 26 at the Company's world headquarters in Colorado. The leading industry event attracts over 100 global mobility, talent management and human resource executives annually. In addition to hands-on workshops, keynote speakers and peer networking, breakout sessions that will cover best practices in U.S. and global relocation programs will be conducted throughout the three-day event.
This marks the ninth year that Graebel University will host the Global Relocation Policy Summit in the Americas. Participants will be eligible to earn re-certification credits for Worldwide ERC® credentials including the Certified Relocation Professional® (CRP) and Global Mobility Specialist® (GMS) designations.
Last year, Graebel Relocation earned the first-place Americas EMMA award for the 2014 Global Relocation Policy Summit research report. The document summarized findings and data collected from the executives who attended the Summit. This complimentary report is available upon request to marcom1(at)graebel(dot)com or from a Graebel Relocation representative.
Additional thought leadership events are planned in the Americas, EMEA, and APAC regions in 2015.
About Graebel Companies, Inc.
Founded in 1950, Graebel Companies is a privately-held global organization that offers the full suite of employee and commercial office relocation, mobility management, workplace and consultative services for the Global 100 and Fortune 500. On-the-ground services are managed in 165 countries on six continents. The world headquarters is located in Aurora, Colorado USA with in-region centers throughout the Americas, APAC and EMEA regions. Known for its industry-first innovations, Graebel holds numerous quality and security credentials, and has earned accolades from its clients and from within its industry for its best-in-practice quality and market intelligence initiatives. To learn more visit: http://www.graebel.com
# # # Reported by PRWeb 2 days ago.
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CU officials will keep quiet during Aurora theater shooting trial
University of Colorado officials say they will be mostly mum during the Aurora movie theater shooting trial, which is expected to reveal new details about the gunman's time on campus.
Reported by Denver Post 1 day ago.
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4 Rockets Launched Into Northern Lights to Study Turbulence
4 rockets launched into the aurora over Alaska to study turbulent air currents
Reported by ABCNews.com 1 day ago.
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Springfield airport hits 10-year high in 2014 for passengers
Airport Executive Director Mark Hanna says a big reason for the increase is new Florida service offered through Allegiant Air. Airport officials say the drop was caused by harsh winter weather, schedule changes and a September fire at an Aurora air traffic control tower.
Reported by SeattlePI.com 1 day ago.
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ITsavvy Announces Array of Unified Communications Providers
ITsavvy is now offering a full array of unified communications (UC) solutions. With 4 widely acknowledged UC leaders as partners--Cisco, ShoreTel, Mitel, and NEC—ITsavvy offers complete, customized solutions to all of its clients.
ADDISON, Ill. (PRWEB) January 27, 2015
ITsavvy, one of the fastest growing companies of its type in the U.S., is now offering a full array of unified communications (UC) solutions. With 4 widely acknowledged UC leaders as partners--Cisco, ShoreTel, Mitel, and NEC—ITsavvy offers complete, customized solutions to all of its clients.
ITsavvy President and CEO Mike Theriault said, “We work with more UC partners than most of our competitors; there is no UC situation that we cannot accommodate. We are a one-stop shop for best of breed unified communications and world-class engineers.”
ITsavvy’s 4 UC partners are:· Cisco: Elite, industry-leading Cisco solutions are geared toward vertical markets that include: financial, legal, manufacturing, education, accounting, and public organizations. The Cisco partnership allows ITsavvy to be the leader in VoIP and intricate networking solutions.
· ShoreTel: This partner’s UC solutions leverage the power of VoIP to offer a distributed architecture with built-in remote survivability that is easy to use. With their Desktop Client, ShoreTel integrates VoIP telephony, instant messaging, video conferencing, mobility, presence, and collaboration capabilities into a seamless business environment.
· Mitel: MiVoice UC solutions offer a complete sweep of flexible communications platforms – from modular on-premise solutions to a single, Cloud-ready software stream that supports a magnitude of deployment models in organizations of every size.
· NEC: NEC-based business communication systems accelerate business processes and provide a flexible, scalable solution for employees. NEC excels in digital UC solutions.
As a division of ITsavvy’s Advanced Solutions Group, UC specialists create systems that sync mismatched voice and data network operations, and eliminate oversight tasks—making communications between onsite and offsite staff, vendors, and customers more collaborative, productive, efficient, and secure.
Theriault added, “One of the most valuable aspects of ITsavvy is that our engineers have all the tools they need at their disposal to create the perfect, most cost-effective solution for each client. Unified communications is a good example, but this is true for all of the technologies that we offer.”
ITsavvy, one of the fastest growing companies of its type in the U.S., is a recognized leader in tailored end-to-end IT product and service solutions. ITsavvy built its reputation as a value-added reseller with industry-leading product availability, design and implementation, client support and delivery speed through 46 distribution centers across the U.S. ITsavvy also has data center locations in New Jersey, Illinois and New York. The company’s new, user-friendly website provides hundreds of concise, leading-edge IT decision-making resources, including an e-commerce site with real-time pricing and availability. ITsavvy is headquartered in Addison, IL, with offices in Chicago’s Loop; Hauppauge, NY; New York, NY; Warren, NJ; Aurora, IL; Davenport, IA; Hayward, CA; and Beavercreek, OH. Call 1-855-ITsavvy (1-855-487-2889), email: info@ITsavvy.com, visit: http://www.ITsavvy.com.
Full release at: http://www.itsavvy.com/itsavvy-announces-array-unified-communications-providers/
### Reported by PRWeb 1 day ago.
ADDISON, Ill. (PRWEB) January 27, 2015
ITsavvy, one of the fastest growing companies of its type in the U.S., is now offering a full array of unified communications (UC) solutions. With 4 widely acknowledged UC leaders as partners--Cisco, ShoreTel, Mitel, and NEC—ITsavvy offers complete, customized solutions to all of its clients.
ITsavvy President and CEO Mike Theriault said, “We work with more UC partners than most of our competitors; there is no UC situation that we cannot accommodate. We are a one-stop shop for best of breed unified communications and world-class engineers.”
ITsavvy’s 4 UC partners are:· Cisco: Elite, industry-leading Cisco solutions are geared toward vertical markets that include: financial, legal, manufacturing, education, accounting, and public organizations. The Cisco partnership allows ITsavvy to be the leader in VoIP and intricate networking solutions.
· ShoreTel: This partner’s UC solutions leverage the power of VoIP to offer a distributed architecture with built-in remote survivability that is easy to use. With their Desktop Client, ShoreTel integrates VoIP telephony, instant messaging, video conferencing, mobility, presence, and collaboration capabilities into a seamless business environment.
· Mitel: MiVoice UC solutions offer a complete sweep of flexible communications platforms – from modular on-premise solutions to a single, Cloud-ready software stream that supports a magnitude of deployment models in organizations of every size.
· NEC: NEC-based business communication systems accelerate business processes and provide a flexible, scalable solution for employees. NEC excels in digital UC solutions.
As a division of ITsavvy’s Advanced Solutions Group, UC specialists create systems that sync mismatched voice and data network operations, and eliminate oversight tasks—making communications between onsite and offsite staff, vendors, and customers more collaborative, productive, efficient, and secure.
Theriault added, “One of the most valuable aspects of ITsavvy is that our engineers have all the tools they need at their disposal to create the perfect, most cost-effective solution for each client. Unified communications is a good example, but this is true for all of the technologies that we offer.”
ITsavvy, one of the fastest growing companies of its type in the U.S., is a recognized leader in tailored end-to-end IT product and service solutions. ITsavvy built its reputation as a value-added reseller with industry-leading product availability, design and implementation, client support and delivery speed through 46 distribution centers across the U.S. ITsavvy also has data center locations in New Jersey, Illinois and New York. The company’s new, user-friendly website provides hundreds of concise, leading-edge IT decision-making resources, including an e-commerce site with real-time pricing and availability. ITsavvy is headquartered in Addison, IL, with offices in Chicago’s Loop; Hauppauge, NY; New York, NY; Warren, NJ; Aurora, IL; Davenport, IA; Hayward, CA; and Beavercreek, OH. Call 1-855-ITsavvy (1-855-487-2889), email: info@ITsavvy.com, visit: http://www.ITsavvy.com.
Full release at: http://www.itsavvy.com/itsavvy-announces-array-unified-communications-providers/
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Thought For Food & Son Finishes 2014 with Impressive Growth
Creative PR Boutique offers Food Companies the Essential Ingredients Needed for Success
Marlborough, MA (PRWEB) January 27, 2015
Thought For Food & Son, LLC, a leading creative boutique that specializes in the food industry announced today that the company continued to see strong growth during 2014. Notable new clients during 2014 included industry icon Dell’s Maraschino Cherries, Raw Seafood, 505 Southwestern Sauces & Salsas, SuperSeedz, K&B Seafood, Rave Bites, Healthy Solutions Spice Blends, Cape Cod Select and Flavor Bombs.
“We feel for an agency to be truly effective it must operate in the same space as its clients,” said Alan A. Casucci, managing director of Thought For Food & Son. “Our specialization within the food industry combined with our industry expertise separates us from the rest of the agencies out there.”
In today’s competitive retail environment, food manufacturers need all the advantages they can get when launching new products or building upon their existing brand portfolios. With over 3,000 new food products being introduced annually, manufacturers cannot afford to go to market without a sound strategy. Statistics show that one-third of all new products fail within the first year.
Thought For Food & Son uses a combination of traditional PR tactics integrated with new social media platforms to build trial and market share for regional, national and global food companies. Thought For Food & Son implements campaigns that speak to food industry professionals who are responsible for slotting their client’s products onto retailer shelves and to consumers who are responsible for purchasing their products.
Furthermore, Thought For Food & Son http://www.tffandson.com established a strategic partnership during 2014 with SourceOne Sales & Marketing of New Hyde Park, New York, a leading brand and distribution company headed by industry veterans Tom Lieb and Bob O’Connell. The combination of both companie’s strategic resources provide food companies with the essential ingredients needed to successfully launch new products and gain more market share of existing products.
“Thought For Food & Son offers its clients a combination of expertise and value that is unsurpassed within the food industry. We’re a communications company without the traditional agency “BS.” Food companies don’t have to pay us to learn their business,” added Casucci.
Thought For Food & Son offers its clients a proprietary PR FOOD MEDIA INDEX, an all-in-one strategic instrument that allows food companies to speak directly to their peer group, industry trade press, category buyers, distributors, wholesalers, retailers, and most importantly, consumers. Thought For Food & Son’s proprietary PR FOOD MEDIA INDEX has over 100,000 media outlets across North America, complete with more than 300,000 staff listings and contact preferences.
Thought For Food & Son has worked with both large and small food companies such as Sea Watch International, famous Hollywood actor Paul Sorvino Foods, Maristella’s Fine Foods, Cape Cod Select, Beeler Pork, Bakery On Main, New York Ravioli & Pasta Company, Flavor Bombs, New England Natural Bakers, Paterson Pickle Company, Healthy Solutions Spice Blends, SuperSeedz, Paesana Italian Products, Boston Speed Dog, Raw Seafoods, 505 Southwestern Sauces, Jerk Nation, Aurora Products, Big League Chew and Dell’s Maraschino Cherries.
About Thought For Food & Son, LLC
Founded in 2005, Thought For Food & Son, LLC is a leading creative boutique that specializes in the food industry. We offer our clients a combination of expertise and value that is unsurpassed within the food industry. We’re a communications company without the traditional agency “BS.” Thought For Food & Son operates as a “Strategic Resource” for its clients offering public relations, social media, packaging design and brand development. Our focus is to create communication strategies using our proprietary PR FOOD MEDIA INDEX for clients who believe in powerful thinking. Thinking that demands notice. The kind of thinking that inspires people to take action and enables our clients to grow and prosper. For more information about Thought For Food & Son e-mail alan(at)tffandson(dot)com Reported by PRWeb 22 hours ago.
Marlborough, MA (PRWEB) January 27, 2015
Thought For Food & Son, LLC, a leading creative boutique that specializes in the food industry announced today that the company continued to see strong growth during 2014. Notable new clients during 2014 included industry icon Dell’s Maraschino Cherries, Raw Seafood, 505 Southwestern Sauces & Salsas, SuperSeedz, K&B Seafood, Rave Bites, Healthy Solutions Spice Blends, Cape Cod Select and Flavor Bombs.
“We feel for an agency to be truly effective it must operate in the same space as its clients,” said Alan A. Casucci, managing director of Thought For Food & Son. “Our specialization within the food industry combined with our industry expertise separates us from the rest of the agencies out there.”
In today’s competitive retail environment, food manufacturers need all the advantages they can get when launching new products or building upon their existing brand portfolios. With over 3,000 new food products being introduced annually, manufacturers cannot afford to go to market without a sound strategy. Statistics show that one-third of all new products fail within the first year.
Thought For Food & Son uses a combination of traditional PR tactics integrated with new social media platforms to build trial and market share for regional, national and global food companies. Thought For Food & Son implements campaigns that speak to food industry professionals who are responsible for slotting their client’s products onto retailer shelves and to consumers who are responsible for purchasing their products.
Furthermore, Thought For Food & Son http://www.tffandson.com established a strategic partnership during 2014 with SourceOne Sales & Marketing of New Hyde Park, New York, a leading brand and distribution company headed by industry veterans Tom Lieb and Bob O’Connell. The combination of both companie’s strategic resources provide food companies with the essential ingredients needed to successfully launch new products and gain more market share of existing products.
“Thought For Food & Son offers its clients a combination of expertise and value that is unsurpassed within the food industry. We’re a communications company without the traditional agency “BS.” Food companies don’t have to pay us to learn their business,” added Casucci.
Thought For Food & Son offers its clients a proprietary PR FOOD MEDIA INDEX, an all-in-one strategic instrument that allows food companies to speak directly to their peer group, industry trade press, category buyers, distributors, wholesalers, retailers, and most importantly, consumers. Thought For Food & Son’s proprietary PR FOOD MEDIA INDEX has over 100,000 media outlets across North America, complete with more than 300,000 staff listings and contact preferences.
Thought For Food & Son has worked with both large and small food companies such as Sea Watch International, famous Hollywood actor Paul Sorvino Foods, Maristella’s Fine Foods, Cape Cod Select, Beeler Pork, Bakery On Main, New York Ravioli & Pasta Company, Flavor Bombs, New England Natural Bakers, Paterson Pickle Company, Healthy Solutions Spice Blends, SuperSeedz, Paesana Italian Products, Boston Speed Dog, Raw Seafoods, 505 Southwestern Sauces, Jerk Nation, Aurora Products, Big League Chew and Dell’s Maraschino Cherries.
About Thought For Food & Son, LLC
Founded in 2005, Thought For Food & Son, LLC is a leading creative boutique that specializes in the food industry. We offer our clients a combination of expertise and value that is unsurpassed within the food industry. We’re a communications company without the traditional agency “BS.” Thought For Food & Son operates as a “Strategic Resource” for its clients offering public relations, social media, packaging design and brand development. Our focus is to create communication strategies using our proprietary PR FOOD MEDIA INDEX for clients who believe in powerful thinking. Thinking that demands notice. The kind of thinking that inspires people to take action and enables our clients to grow and prosper. For more information about Thought For Food & Son e-mail alan(at)tffandson(dot)com Reported by PRWeb 22 hours ago.
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Daily Digest: CU officials will keep quiet during Aurora theater shooting trial, and 9 other stories
Your daily resource for late-breaking news, upcoming events, the Denver weather forecast, Denver traffic information, and the stories that will be talked about on Tuesday, Jan.
Reported by Denver Post 22 hours ago.
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Aurora police: Motorcycle parking lot crash leaves man dead
Police in Aurora are investigating a fatal, single-vehicle motorcycle crash Tuesday morning that left a 45-year-old man dead.
Reported by Denver Post 21 hours ago.
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Metro Denver unemployment rate 3.9% in December
Metro Denver's unadjusted unemployment rate stood at 3.9 percent in December, unchanged from November but well below the December 2013 rate of 5.7 percent, according to raw county jobs estimates Tuesday from the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment. The 3.9 percent unadjusted jobless rate is for a 10-county area that includes Denver, Aurora, Lakewood, Broomfield and Centennial, but not Boulder County. Boulder County's unemployment rate was 3.0 percent last month, unadjusted. The rate for…
Reported by bizjournals 19 hours ago.
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No confidence vote against Aurora city manager fails
Five members of the Aurora City Council have no confidence in City Manager Skip Noe, and said as much with a vote during the regular meeting Monday.
Reported by Denver Post 16 hours ago.
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Scientists Have Caught A Laser Beam In Flight On Video For The First Time
For the first time, researchers at the Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland have caught light flying through the air on camera.
Usually when we try to take a video of light, and even when we see it, it's immediately on and off, as if it takes no time to get to your
While light appears to show up instantaneously when you flick a switch, it actually takes time to get to your eyes. It just moves so fast we don't notice. This is why it's been so hard to catch light on the move in a video — it's moving so fast even regular high-speed cameras can't catch it.
To catch light on film, the researchers had to develop a camera that can capture 20 billion frames per second, which is enough to catch a beam of light traveling through the air at the speed of light.
"This is the first time we've looked at light just passing by," lead researcher Genevieve Gariepy told The Verge. Airborne light was first captured in 1978, but such research has always depended on visual-enhancing crutches like light-scattering screens or even bottled mixtures of milk and water.
Light moves so fast that in just one second of time it will travel more than 185,000 miles — more than half the distance from the Earth to the moon.
Since it moves so fast, the researchers had only a few nanoseconds to capture the light bouncing between the three mirrors framing the camera's 35 by 35 centimeter field of view. Here's what that looks like:
A single photon would be too faint to see, so the video above is footage superimposed from "2 million identical pulses propagating through the setup" taken over 10 minutes, according to study published today in the journal Nature Communications. Essentially, many images of individual light particles are stacked into one visible "school" of photons.
The study adds that a "higher repetition rate laser" would reduce the acquisition time to less than one second. In order to get the timing just right, the camera is tied to the source of the laser pulse, and it picks up on the light particles that scatter as the light collides with air molecules.
As for the camera, two features lend it the ability to catch light in action: The 1024 pixels within it are ten times more sensitive to light than the human eye, and they're quick enough to operate for just 67 picoseconds. The streaky-ness in the video is actually a feature, researchers told The Verge:
Gariepy explains that slightly smeared look of the laser in the video — a little like watching the aurora borealis in slow motion — shows just how precise the camera is. "The pulse has a shape: it's not just a rectangle moving through the air."
The video also posits potential applications for the camera and the imaging it allows, such as "recording the scattered light from objects hidden from view, enabling us to look around corners."
MIT demonstrated this very application in 2012, showing how a laptop tied to a camera was able to pretty accurately draw up the dimensions of a small mannequin propped up around the corner.
Seeing around corners without actually sending any signals to the object to be seen is cool in and of itself. But pragmatic uses for that ability, the narrator in the video below explains, range from "search and rescue missions where faint signals will enable trapped people to be found, to medical imaging inside the body, when new forms of endoscopy are enabled by time of flight imaging."
And as Gariepy tells the Verge, it could also help in learning more about the nature of light itself.
The slow-motion video is short and sweet. If you want to learn more, here's a deeper explanation of how this amazing camera makes "light-in-flight imaging" possible, uploaded ahead of the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition in 2014:
*SEE ALSO: 11 Mind-Blowing Physics Discoveries Made In 2014*
*SEE ALSO: Here's The Crazy Physics You Need To Know To Understand 'Interstellar'*
Join the conversation about this story » Reported by Business Insider 15 hours ago.
Usually when we try to take a video of light, and even when we see it, it's immediately on and off, as if it takes no time to get to your
While light appears to show up instantaneously when you flick a switch, it actually takes time to get to your eyes. It just moves so fast we don't notice. This is why it's been so hard to catch light on the move in a video — it's moving so fast even regular high-speed cameras can't catch it.
To catch light on film, the researchers had to develop a camera that can capture 20 billion frames per second, which is enough to catch a beam of light traveling through the air at the speed of light.
"This is the first time we've looked at light just passing by," lead researcher Genevieve Gariepy told The Verge. Airborne light was first captured in 1978, but such research has always depended on visual-enhancing crutches like light-scattering screens or even bottled mixtures of milk and water.
Light moves so fast that in just one second of time it will travel more than 185,000 miles — more than half the distance from the Earth to the moon.
Since it moves so fast, the researchers had only a few nanoseconds to capture the light bouncing between the three mirrors framing the camera's 35 by 35 centimeter field of view. Here's what that looks like:
A single photon would be too faint to see, so the video above is footage superimposed from "2 million identical pulses propagating through the setup" taken over 10 minutes, according to study published today in the journal Nature Communications. Essentially, many images of individual light particles are stacked into one visible "school" of photons.
The study adds that a "higher repetition rate laser" would reduce the acquisition time to less than one second. In order to get the timing just right, the camera is tied to the source of the laser pulse, and it picks up on the light particles that scatter as the light collides with air molecules.
As for the camera, two features lend it the ability to catch light in action: The 1024 pixels within it are ten times more sensitive to light than the human eye, and they're quick enough to operate for just 67 picoseconds. The streaky-ness in the video is actually a feature, researchers told The Verge:
Gariepy explains that slightly smeared look of the laser in the video — a little like watching the aurora borealis in slow motion — shows just how precise the camera is. "The pulse has a shape: it's not just a rectangle moving through the air."
The video also posits potential applications for the camera and the imaging it allows, such as "recording the scattered light from objects hidden from view, enabling us to look around corners."
MIT demonstrated this very application in 2012, showing how a laptop tied to a camera was able to pretty accurately draw up the dimensions of a small mannequin propped up around the corner.
Seeing around corners without actually sending any signals to the object to be seen is cool in and of itself. But pragmatic uses for that ability, the narrator in the video below explains, range from "search and rescue missions where faint signals will enable trapped people to be found, to medical imaging inside the body, when new forms of endoscopy are enabled by time of flight imaging."
And as Gariepy tells the Verge, it could also help in learning more about the nature of light itself.
The slow-motion video is short and sweet. If you want to learn more, here's a deeper explanation of how this amazing camera makes "light-in-flight imaging" possible, uploaded ahead of the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition in 2014:
*SEE ALSO: 11 Mind-Blowing Physics Discoveries Made In 2014*
*SEE ALSO: Here's The Crazy Physics You Need To Know To Understand 'Interstellar'*
Join the conversation about this story » Reported by Business Insider 15 hours ago.
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