Telephoto lenses are expensive. Now imagine that you can capture images from a distance without using a telephoto lens. This is what the wizards (engineers) at Rice and Northwestern universities have done with the SAVI...
Imagine a camera using a high-performance sensor that is super sensitive to light and captures high resolution pictures… with only a few pixels. Such a sensor would be made of graphene, which is an extremely thin...
A single-pixel camera, as its name implies, uses a a single light sensor rather than the millions of light sensors usually found in a conventional camera. Researchers at Rice University built such a camera in 2006 that...
Since a CMOS image sensor is sensitive to near-infrared (NIR) wavelengths, an IR (infrared) cut-off filter is physically placed in front of the sensor to block off these NIR wave-lenths that can produce unnatural...
Bats are blind but can “see” with sonar, swooping, swerving, and flying without colliding with one another. So the researchers at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Coordinated Science Laboratory...
To make a camera tough today, engineers give it a magnesium alloy frame. Imagine a camera frame or body made with a material that is as light as plastic but has a strength 10 times that of steel. This is what a team of...
It’s not your traditional camera and it obviously does not rely on the visible spectrum of light radiation to produce an image. Instead, this computational imaging system uses terahertz radiation, the band of...
Not everyone can be an astronaut or afford the $20 million that American businessman Dennis Tito paid to become history’s first space tourist on the International Space Station (ISS). If you just want to fly up...
