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Panasonic Develops Sensor Tweak That Vastly Improves Low-Light Photography
Researchers at Panasonic’s imaging division have found a way to increase the sensitivity of digital camera sensors, which, in turn, equates to almost double the brightness in photos taken in low-light conditions. But the discovery has nothing to do with the sensor itself; instead, the company has improved the colour processing filter placed in front of it.
How Your Smartphone Will Get Lytro-Like Superpowers
As neat as they are, the Lytro camera’s re-focusing tricks aren’t going to convince most of us to replace our highly pocketable cameraphones. So a California company called DigitalOptics has found a way to give us the best of both worlds with a new ultra-thin sensor that promises Lytro-like tricks.
Canon Built An Image Sensor That Sees In The Dark
The one thing we always wish our cameras did better is take better pictures in low light. It looks like Canon is attacking the problem guns a’blazing, because its new 35mm image sensor spits in the face of darkness.
Radical New Image Sensor Turns Your Entire Display Into A Digital Camera
Researchers at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria have developed a new kind of image sensor that could one day revolutionise the form factor of digital cameras. Instead of a postage stamp-sized digital eye, the sensor is a flat, flexible, transparent plastic sheet that could be invisibly overlayed on displays, or just used as is.
Paranoid Movie Watches You Watch It And Changes To Your Liking
If Choose Your Own Adventure books weren’t your go-to in fourth grade there’s something seriously wrong with you. But you’re going to have another chance to dictate the creative process thanks to a movie that chooses its ending based on sensor data from the audience.
RFID Parcel Sensor Knows If Your Delivery Has Been Dropped
When I was a Christmas postman, many years ago, some of the bored guys in the sorting office’s loading bay liked to play a boisterous game of “catch” when parcels marked “video recorder” and “fragile” arrived. How they guffawed when one landed in the bottom of a skip with a sickening crunch, ruining somebody’s Christmas.
The Next Kinect Will Turn Everyone Into A Jedi Everywhere
Capri, the next 3D sensor by the makers of Microsoft Kinect, will bring precise, fast motion tracking to everything — laptops, TVs, lifts, robots and appliances. Basically, it will turn everyone into Jedis or wizards, allowing you to casually wave your hand to make machines do whatever you want.
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