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The World's Smallest Video Camera

Posted by timothy on from the earwax-explorer dept.

fergus07 writes "Medigus has developed what it claims is the world's smallest video camera at just 0.039-inches (0.99 mm) in diameter. The Israeli company's second-gen model (a 0.047-inch diameter camera was unveiled in 2009) has a dedicated 0.66x0.66 mm CMOS sensor that captures images at 45K resolution and no, it's not destined for use in tiny mobile phones or covert surveillance devices; instead the camera is designed for medical endoscopic procedures in hard-to-reach regions of the human anatomy."

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  1. Smallest camera you say? by fridaynightsmoke · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, they know where they can stick that...

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    1. Re:Smallest camera you say? by Abstrackt · · Score: 3, Funny

      They can obviously see Uranus with it.

      Which changed it's name to Urectum because they we're tired of the jokes.

      Actually they got tired of that joke too, so they changed the name again. Something with goats, I think.

      Urkidding?

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  2. Re:45k in lines by Farmer+Tim · · Score: 2, Funny

    I had to look that up.

    Weak.

    In Soviet Russia, cystoscopy looks up...actually, that's how it works everywhere.

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  3. Off topic by tehcyder · · Score: 4, Funny

    If someone doesn't change that fucking quote of the day by "Matt Welsh" soon, I'm going to scream and scream and scream until my head falls off and then let my grieving relatives sue slashdot for one trillion dollars.

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