The World's Smallest Video Camera

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."

Comments

Smallest camera you say?

[fridaynightsmoke]

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

Re:Smallest camera you say?

[Abstrackt]

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?

Translation

[somersault]

instead the camera is designed for medical endoscopic procedures in hard to reach regions of the human anatomy.

By that they really just mean "up-skirt" shots.

Re:45k in lines

[imsabbel]

Thats what they are doing right now. Guess what. 45k individual fibres, even bundled, need a lot more space than a 1mm^3 camera...

Re:45k in lines

[Dr_Barnowl]

They do use fibre bundles for endoscopes ; they're very expensive ($10,000 kind of expensive).

CMOS sensors are actually a significant step up in terms of

* durability - whack a fibre endoscope on the edge of a surgical trolley and you just broke half the fibres in the bundle. Not so with a wire bundle.
* price - a CMOS sensor, even a medically certified one, is much cheaper than a carefully aligned bundle of photographic class optical fibres

And I reckon you can probably make sensors of a usable size and resolution, with lenses, much smaller than an equivalent fibre assembly.

Re:Dupe ?

[retroworks]

I thought it was a duplicate too. But it made my comment on the previous story worth duplicating... "Nine months from now, will these seem large and cumbersome?" The comment got modded down last month, probably foolish to repost.

Off topic

[tehcyder]

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.