This Photo of Earth Was Captured by a Lens Smaller Than the Edge of a Coin
A new image of Earth may not look like much at first glance, but how it was captured is incredible.
NASCAR Rolls Out Tiny Driver’s Eye Camera, But Blurs Part of the Image
NASCAR's Daytona 500 event on Sunday marked the first time the stock car racing series featured the driver's eye camera that lets the viewer see what the driver is seeing.
Tokina’s Mini Pieni II Toy Camera Actually Takes Tiny Photos and Videos
Kenko Tokina has announced an ultra-compact digital camera called the Pieni II that is small and lightweight enough to be held between to fingers and takes tiny 1.3-megapixel photos and videos.
Compact Wide-Angle Metalens Camera Eliminates Bulky Glass Optics
The development in metalens technology continues, and researchers have designed a new compact camera that takes high-quality wide-angle photos and eliminates the typical bulk of optics.
This Swallowable Camera Can Take the Place of Traditional Colonoscopies
More than 2,000 patients in Scotland have swallowed a tiny pill-shaped camera in order to be screened for bowel cancer. The medical program replaced traditional colonoscopies and has reduced waiting times and allowed for faster diagnosis.
Researchers Shrink High-Res Camera Down to the Size of a Grain of Salt
Researchers from Princeton University and the University of Washington have developed a high-resolution, full-color camera that is the size of a grain of salt that is the next generation of metasurface technology.
Vivo Designs Detachable Smartphone Camera with Tiny Touch Display
Vivo has designed a smartphone camera that detaches from the main body of the phone and takes a piece of the display with it, a curious design decision that allows the main cameras to be used for selfies... and more.
Researchers Develop Micro-Camera So Small it Can be Injected with a Syringe
Today in interesting scientific breakthroughs, researchers at a university in Germany have managed to 3D-print a three-lens camera the size of a grain of salt. A camera so small it can be injected using a standard syringe.
This Tiny UV Camera Shows You if You’ve Put On Enough Sunscreen
In 2014, filmmaker Tom Leveritt used an ultraviolet camera to show people their skin like they'd never seen it before. Now, you can do the same thing with the Sunscreenr: a tiny, waterproof UV camera that is meant to keep you slathering on sunscreen by showing you when you've used enough and where it's worn off.
New Camera Tech Combines Ultra-Wide View with Fine Detail Capture
Researchers at the University of California-San Diego are fine-tuning some new tiny camera technology that could dramatically boost the detail and field of view of smartphone cameras. Joseph Ford, a professor in the university's Jacob School of Engineering, describes the system in a paper to be presented next week at the Optical Society of America's annual meeting.
According to Ford, his team will soon have the system -- seen above next to a Canon 5D Mark III setup -- refined to a camera assembly with 85-megapixel resolution, 120-degree field of view and f/2 aperture, all in a package about the size of a walnut.
A Pint-Sized Night Vision Camera That’s No Larger Than a CF Card
JTT has released what looks to be the smallest consumer night vision camera in existence. About the size of your typical CF card, the CHOBi CAM 3 can snap 11MP photos and take 1080p video for up to 120 minutes on a charge -- and it does it all in the dark.
Researchers Unveil World’s Smallest Camera the Size of a Grain of Salt
If you had a camera the size of a grain of rice, that would be considered extremely small, but …