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Researchers Developing Single-Pixel Camera
Assassin bug writes "According to the BBC, researchers in the US are developing a single-pixel camera to capture high-quality images without the 'expense' of traditional digital photography. The idea behind such a device is that traditional digital photography is wasteful. Most of the information taken in by the camera is thrown away in the compression process. From the article: 'The digital micromirror device, as it is known, consists of a million or more tiny mirrors each the size of a bacterium. "From that mirror array, we then focus the light through a second lens on to one single photo-detector - a single pixel." As the light passes through the device, the millions of tiny mirrors are turned on and off at random in rapid succession. Complex mathematics then interprets the signals assembling a high resolution image from the thousands of sequential single-pixel snapshots. '"
If the one-pixel camera behaves like a traditional digital camera, I will need to take 100 pixels to get 20 decent pixels that I can use.
In related news, a major roofing manufacturer has announced the "single shingle" roof. It consists of a small plate that is quickly moved about above a building during a rainstorm to block each individual raindrop. This eliminates the "complexity" of asphalt shingles.
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Bet it'd suck to have a bad pixel with that camera, huh? :-)
Now we can get pr0n at the level of quality in Duke Nukem! One fleshy-pink-colored pixel is enough to get most me off...
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1) Create a million bacteria-sized mirrors. 2) ???? 3) Profit!
Oh great, now I'll end up with a camera with a stuck or hot pixel and be totally screwed. Thanks, progress.
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Look how many MegaMirrors my new camera has!
It's a little clue for those "in the know" that the described benefits are entirely imaginary.
Shh. We can score some karma by copying the +5 posts from the original story.
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Unfortunately they turned out not to be very accurate when photgraphing girls. Mirrors, as everyone knows, makes them look fat.
The revolution will not be televised... but it will have a page on Wikipedia
Single pixel images will revolutionize the efficiency of porn sharing.
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I've been following the digital camera industry closely for the past few years. We had 3 megapixels, then 4, 5, etc. Now they're blowing that out of the water with a 0.000001 megapixel camera!!! Amazing! There's no frinkin way they're topping this, baby! I guess with ongoing advances in miniaturization, maybe someday they'll find a way to cram 0.000000001 gigapixels into a camera. Today, such a camera would be the size of house.
Just my luck, and the warranty says I can't return it unless I find at least 4 dead pixels!!!