A privacy nightmare, this WILL be misused systematically. I used to get excited about new technologies like that, but big tech ruined the future for me.
I agree with the others: this is literally the perfect implementation of literal Big Brother "your TV watches you" tech - this WILL BE ABUSED by Tech Corps + Governments.
We need to stop building surveilance panopticons!
"it is even conceivable that Norris’s pixels could react to a captured image and, without going through a computer, produce corresponding light patterns."
Great, also they invented a digital mirror (and digital fun house mirror).
Beautiful! No prole will evade the stare of the Big Brother.
P.S. For the offended at "prole" and /s-agnostic parsers: yes that's who you are for the BB, like it or not. And of course there's nothing beautiful in that.
Is this really as detrimental to privacy as other comments claim? There are already very small cameras which can be used for adversarial purposes. This technology could be useful for many utilitarian purposes.
Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a new type of pixel that can not only be used to create images, but also to analyse them.
This could eventually be used for better in-display cameras where the pixels are used as a image sensors.
The researchers have published their results in Nature recently: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10681-7
Love the technological aspect, hate the practical implications. Any part of any screen can be a camera. Good luck covering that with a post-it.
I wonder if there is any way to counter that.
I can only imagine placing another matching camscreen face to face onto the source one and sending what it sees to a trusted camera-incapable display. But then there is a lot more practical questions and implications..
Would we even know if a screen is “camera-incapable”? One day the “think of the children” routine will come for your screen.
That's exactly one of the practical implications I mentioned!