Accident Could Lead To Better Digital Cameras

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday December 1, 2008 @08:35AM from the digital-chamagne dept.

Dave Bullock (eecue) writes "Scientists at UCLA have accidentally created a material that will some day give us better, faster, cheaper, more flexible digital cameras. I toured their lab and shot a photo essay for Wired. Personally I'm looking forward to a quantum-dot embedded camera sensor someday soon. 'Graduate student Hsiang-Yu Chen was working on a new formula for solar cells when something went wrong. Instead of creating electricity when hit with light, the conductivity of the material she was working with changed. "The original purpose [was] to make a solar cell more efficient," says Chen. "However, during the research we found the solar cell phenomenon [had] disappeared." Instead, the test material showed high gain photoconductivity, indicating potential use as a photo sensor.'"

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Fuck this Shit by Anonymous Coward · 2008-12-01 09:00 · Score: -1, Flamebait

There is no indication that this would be beneficial at all to camera design or manufacturing.
We have too many good, cheap, cameras.
Every asshole thinks they can just buy a DSLR and become a photographer (or even worse, a photo journalist).
We don't have enough good, cheap, solar cells.
Hsiang-Yu Chen gets an F-.
UCLA gets a FUCK YOU.