News tagged with miniature cameras

High-speed CMOS sensors provide better images

Conventional CMOS image sensors are not suitable for low-light applications such as fluorescence, since large pixels arranged in a matrix do not support high readout speeds. A new optoelectronic component ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jan 03, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Developing tiny cave camera and iris recognition technology for military, homeland security

Researchers are expanding new miniature camera technology for military and security uses so soldiers can track combatants in dark caves or urban alleys, and security officials can unobtrusively identify a subject from an ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 14, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Australia reveals prototype 'bionic' eye

Bionic Vision Australia (BVA) today unveils their wide-view neurostimulator concept - a bionic eye that will be implanted into Australia's first recipient of the technology.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Mar 30, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (16) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Spider pill to seek out diseases

(PhysOrg.com) -- A remotely controlled 'spider pill' with eight moving legs and a miniature camera may become the next tool of choice in diagnosing cancers of the stomach and colon.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Oct 16, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 0 weblog

Secrets of insect flight revealed

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers are one step closer to creating a micro-aircraft that flies with the manoeuvrability and energy efficiency of an insect after decoding the aerodynamic secrets of insect flight.

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Tiny cameras have big market

Having earned a reputation helping other companies make smaller and faster semiconductors, San Jose-based Tessera now hopes to use its miniature camera technology to revolutionize how a wide array of gadgets interact with ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created May 13, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

One-eyed filmmaker conceals camera in prosthetic

(AP) -- A one-eyed documentary filmmaker is preparing to work with a video camera concealed inside a prosthetic eye, hoping to secretly record people for a project commenting on the global spread of surveillance ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 3