Customize a Boeing 787 Dreamliner of your very own

Having a private jet is something that only select few of the world’s richest individuals can boast. But if you’re going to fantasize about owning your own cloud-cruising mega machine, you may as well dream big. That’s what Boeing has in mind with its new virtual plane customization tool that allows you to gohands-on with your very own 787 Dreamliner, the most luxurious commercial jet the company has ever built. 

When you first dive into the adventure of customizing your new plane you are given a blank slate. From there you can chose colors, graphics, text, or even go freehand with the paintbrush option. The virtual tool lets you do basically anything you want to the outside of your Dreamliner, and once you’ve completed your masterpiece you can submit it to the user gallery for everyone to marvel at. 

Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner is the newest plane from the company and just made its maiden flight in September. The first 787 to take to the skies with a commercial crew boasted a modest livery of blue and white striping, but we’re sure you can top that.

Trillion Frames Per Second

Slow-motion cameras can capture bullets as they zoom by, but what if you could get a film of light beams?

At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Media Lab postdoc Andreas Velten and his colleagues, professor Ramesh Raskar and Moungi Bawendi, a professor of chemistry, have developed a camera that does just that. The camera can hit a trillion frames per second, which is fast enough to catch light scattering in a bottle. To date, the fastest cameras have hit the billion-frames-per-second range

The camera is based on imaging technology called a streak camera, which is used commonly in chemistry. But this camera, which is very different from any digital camera you or I have seen, uses a  laser and a range of precise engineering and optical techniques to snap thousands of images. Instead of a round lens, it has a slit, where light passes through and encounters an electric field that’s changing rapidly. Because the field is shifting fast, it deflects the light particles, or photons. A sensor inside the camera captures the photons one slit a time. Every slice of photons is then combined into one longer video.

So what practical uses are there? Raskar said in the MIT release that this kind of camera could be used in industrial areas to image flaws in surfaces that need to be precisely engineered and perhaps even in the future, it could be used in commercial film making. Watch the video below for more explanation and to see the slow motion light traveling through the bottle.

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