Video Camera That Records At The Speed Of Thought

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15 points·ankeshk··6 comments

I think crunchgear stepped into the metaphor here. I don't see anything in the actual article, http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091013210441.ht... that talks about it being small enough to fit in a cell. This quote is probably what lead them astray…

So it is possible, for example, to go inside neurons and look at their ion channels

…but the speaker is in the context of examining fluorescence through a microscope.

For what it's worth, an ostrich egg yolk is a single cell with a volume of about 500 cubic centimeters. You could fit a small point-and-shoot camera inside (although the pictures would probably suck). :)

* 1 frame = 16 kilopixels, each of them having, say, a monochromatic value in the [0,15] range ==> 1 frame = 64 kilobits.

* framerate = 1M fps = 10^6 * 64 kilobits/sec = 64 gigabits/sec.

* how big is the wire?... My guess is it's bigger than a neural connection. :)

Forget medicine. If you have a 128x128 pixel imaging chip that is sensitive to single photons I want it in a secondary camera on my iPhone so I can find my way in the dark.

I know, space is tight, how about making it look out of one of the sides? I can hold the phone flat and landscape for night vision. That is probably safer than walking around in the dark with a phone held in front of my face.

This title is seriously misleading.

better link from TFA:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091013210441.ht...

An array of these things could create a pretty crazy regular-sized imaging sensor. I can see a ton of applications if they can manufacture these cheaply.

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