Lens-Free Flat Cameras Make Use of Pinhole Technology (npr.org)

RhubarbPye writes: As reported on NPR, "Engineers in Texas are building a camera that can make a sharp image with no lens at all." By incorporating millions of individual pinholes with photoreceptors and postprocessing software, this camera system has been reduced to minimal thickness. Cameras in the wallpaper? A new phase of wearable cameras? What other applications for this technology could be developed?

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I must be missing something...

[Mashiki]

So, let's see if I get this right. They rediscovered something, that everyone from the 1990's and 80 years prior learned to make as part of science class...and simply applied modern technology to it.