Political Insider
How to eavesdrop on conversations – with a bag of potato chips and a camera
Because the ebola virus just isn't giving you the paranoia fix that you need on a late Tuesday afternoon:
In other experiments, they extracted useful audio signals from videos of aluminum foil, the surface of a glass of water, and even the leaves of a potted plant. The researchers will present their findings in a paper at this year's Siggraph, the premier computer graphics conference.
Thank God, no one at Georgia Tech is doing anything like this. Right, guys?
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Jim Galloway, the newspaper’s former political columnist, was a writer and editor at the AJC for four decades.
