Accident Could Lead To Better Digital Cameras 120
Dave Bullock (eecue) writes "Scientists at UCLA have accidentally created a material that will some day give us better, faster, cheaper, more flexible digital cameras. I toured their lab and shot a photo essay for Wired. Personally I'm looking forward to a quantum-dot embedded camera sensor someday soon. 'Graduate student Hsiang-Yu Chen was working on a new formula for solar cells when something went wrong. Instead of creating electricity when hit with light, the conductivity of the material she was working with changed. "The original purpose [was] to make a solar cell more efficient," says Chen. "However, during the research we found the solar cell phenomenon [had] disappeared." Instead, the test material showed high gain photoconductivity, indicating potential use as a photo sensor.'"
Nice accident... (Score:5, Funny)
Scientific accidents have brought some of the most groundbreaking discoveries - vulcanized rubber, X-rays, penicillin
I like how they compare 3 things that have been unimaginably advantageous to the human race to something that will allow me to view better-quality porn.
Re:Nice accident... (Score:0, Funny)
That's great... (Score:4, Funny)
Hi, Xiao Hsiang-Yu (Score:4, Funny)
Summary of Slashdot posts (Score:4, Funny)
1. Dup!
2. We've been doing that for YEARS...nothing special move along.
3. Duh...
4. Unless I invented it myself I don't believe it.
5. Dick Cheney will probably patent this and sit on it.
Re:Nice accident... (Score:5, Funny)
Dude...
As anyone who's ever viewed porn at higher resolutions / definition can attest, it doesn't make it better, it brings out every flaw in greater detail - making you wish you'd never upgraded....
Re:Nice accident... (Score:3, Funny)
Ok, the rubber and the penicillin are obvious...
but X-rays???
Re:Nice accident... (Score:3, Funny)
I like how they compare 3 things that have been unimaginably advantageous to the human race to something that will allow me to view better-quality porn.
How is this rated funny, real people are trying to earn a living with porn. You insensitive clod.
Parts of the people may be real, other parts are not!
Re:That's great... (Score:3, Funny)
Personally, I've been striving for +5, Flamebait.
Re:That's great... (Score:3, Funny)
(And the lab is still working on better solar cells.)
And after many years of creating better photo sensors for cameras, low-leakage transistors for embedded computers, denser hard drive storage, a material for denser optical disks, and a new formula for Coke that people actually like better than the old one, but never a single improvement in solar cell technology, they give up in disgust.
Re:Nice accident... (Score:5, Funny)
Is this your reason for avoiding real life contacts as well? Or do you close your eyes when you get intimate with a women.
Re:Nice accident... (Score:3, Funny)