Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo stuck a tiny camera inside a toy football to watch the game from the ball's point of view . Image Credit: Kris Kitani Imagine flying through the air at 50 miles an hour, swiftly dipping towards the ground, seeing the strained and determined expression on the wide receiver's face. "Wouldn't it be cool if we could watch sports from the ball's point of view? " asked Kris Kitani, a post-doctoral fellow at the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute. Kitani and his colleagues at Carnegie Mellon and at the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo, Japan are working on just that. "It took a couple of tries — shredded balls and broken cameras — to find a good way to put the camera inside of the ball," said Kitani, "in the end, we cut a hole in the side of the ball and pushed the camera in." By embedding a camera inside of a f
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