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Origami Helps Cellphone Cameras To Focus

Posted by simoniker on from the introducing-the-blade-runner-approach dept.

Sea Monkey writes "New Scientist has an article on the development of novel and ultra-cheap micromotor technology. It's a new type of linear motor, 'using a technique closer to origami than engineering' to cut slits out of tiny piezoelectric ceramic parts. One of the envisioned applications is taking a sheet of the material with the motors, wrapping it into a tube and moving a lens up and down it - instant tiny movable focusing element for cellphone camera lenses."

4 of 132 comments (clear)

  1. oh dang by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    hehe, cool

  2. fp? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Quality control, n.: Assuring that the quality of a product does not get out of hand and add to the cost of its manufacture or design.

  3. an fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    from koft

  4. Who cares?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    I love living in a world where focusable cellphone camera lenses take a front row to incurable diseases, draught and famine.

    Someone shoot me, please.