Tiny CMOS Video Chips from Lucent
Steven M. writes
"Lucent has developed a complete CMOS imaging
system-on-a-chip. Just add case and lens.
The Science Daily
site has a picture of the chip next to a quarter,
while the
Wired site
discusses some of the ethical questions an imaging system
this small (Lucent predicts their design could be used to make marble
sized cameras) and cheap (they predict prices dropping as low as US$0.50 Fifty
Cents!). The design is also very low power (predicted life of
three hours from a 9v battery, while a standard CCD chip would
get a predicted half hour life on the same battery), and has
predicted used ranging from security/survellance cameras, to handheld
cameras and built in desktop and laptop monitor cameras
for video conferencing. "
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