More on cameras

For those living in earthquake-prone locales, there's good news with the invention of the Active Scope Camera. It was conceived by researchers at Japan's Tohoku University and even though it looks a bit like a camera, it's a fiber-optic camera wrapped in a layer of tiny cilia bristles. It's 8 metres long and can move through rubble and very tiny spaces in search of trapped folk. The more people who know about it the better according to Gizmodo - especially if you ever find yourself trapped in the dark, in a small space … and feel something starting to crawl up your leg …