from Technology Review -
A Camera from a Sheet of Fiber
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Not quite earth-shattering preservation news, but a potential new technology for imaging and real-time sensing. With specially engineered sensors (for light, specific colour, temperature or other possible parameters) incorporated into a fabric sheet, such a device could record data pertaining to pollution, moisture, light and temperature - factors which have detrimental effect on materials.

The 2-dimensional array of sensors could also give an actual map of how the monitored parameters change and interact over time. And being thin, the fabric sheet could be attached as a temporary skin onto any surface of interest - stretched behind paintings; pinned onto walls; wrapped around sculptures; stitched into showcases etc.
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