Digital Cameras Take on Human Forms

August 7, 2008 • 7:50 am • POSTED BY ghubacek

 

According to the National Science Foundation, Cameras may be taking on new forms to replicate the function of a human eye:

“Instead of using a flat microchip as the light sensor for their new camera, a team of engineers has developed a sensor that is a flexible mesh of wire-connected pixels.

The mesh is made from many of the same materials as a standard digital-camera sensor, but has the unique ability to conform to convoluted, irregular surfaces.

The technology is already showing promise for photography, as the researchers conformed the array to a hemispherical shape and incorporated the device into a working eye-like camera. The new system eliminates some of the aberrations caused by current camera designs and improves the quality of captured images.”

I gotta be honest, I don’t understand half of what was being discussed here beyond the fact that they can now make spherical shaped sensors constructed out of a mesh of really small sensors, but it sounds really cool. I’m guessing this research will probably lead to some awesome cameras that I could take pictures of myself while posing similar to These guys.

If you really want to get your noggin rolling, check out a video of the amazing new technology being explained by two nerds here.