An Origami Lens for Your Camera Phone?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday January 31, 2007 @10:27AM from the interesting-folds dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "Your next camera phone might get a new kind of lens if researchers at the University of California at San Diego convince the cell phones makers. They have designed an 'origami lens' which will slim high resolution cameras. Today, their 5-millimeter thick, 8-fold imager delivers images comparable in quality with photos taken with a compact camera lens with a 38 millimeter focal length. In a few years, these bendable lenses could be used in high resolution miniature cameras for unmanned surveillance aircraft, cell phones and infrared night vision applications."

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Re:who cares about image quality? by mordors9 · 2007-01-31 10:53 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Actually this sounds like it will work great on my shoe tip camera that I use when walking around da Ladies :-) j/k
Re:Great by Gary+W.+Longsine · 2007-02-01 03:28 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Not to mention... how are comments moderated when mods don't read the comments?

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