Three days after the post went up, the collector’s apartment burned to the ground.

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The collector posted photos of his find on an online forum. He mentioned that the metal casing was strange—it always felt cold, even when left in the sun.

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The head engineer, Dr. Hiraku Sato, was a man obsessed with the mathematics of light. He believed that standard glass was too passive. He theorized that if you could create a lens with "active crystal matrix" elements—glass that changed density via an electric current—you could achieve optical clarity faster than the speed of causality.

It utilizes Canon’s FINE (Full-photolithography Inkjet Nozzle Engineering) technology, which can place ink droplets as small as 2 picoliters, resulting in a maximum color resolution of 4800 x 1200 dpi .

They ran a third test, this time pointing the lens at an empty chair.