Posts tagged "camera"

• NASA's goggle-eyed SPHERE robots create 3D maps on the fly →

  

  Take the little floating ball that gave Luke Skywalker so much trouble during lightsaber practice, slap a pair of huge welder’s goggles on it and you start to get a picture of NASA’s latest foray into flying robots. Currently being tested aboard the International Space Station (ISS), MIT Space Systems Laboratory’s SPHERES-VERTIGO system is a free-flying robot with stereoscopic vision that is part of a program to develop ways for small satellites to autonomously create 3D maps of objects such as asteroids or disabled satellites.

  NASA robots robotics future space maps camera
  3 weeks ago reblog like 14 notes
• Twrrl is the future of egreetings with technology that puts you in the scene →

  

  Twrrl is a new company creating engaging interactive ecards. You can create holiday or other themed egreetings to share with friends and family. Using only a webcam which most computers have you can insert yourself into a scene. 

  technology future ecards research camera computers
  5 months ago reblog like 23 notes
• World’s fastest camera detects rogue cancer cells in real time →

  

  A new optical microscope developed by UCLA engineers could make it easier to distinguish and isolate rare cells from among a large population of assorted cells for early detection of disease and for monitoring disease treatments.

  “To catch these elusive cells, the camera must be able to capture and digitally process millions of images continuously at a very high frame rate [36.7 MHz],” said Bahram Jalali, who holds the Northrop Grumman Endowed Opto-Electronic Chair in Electrical Engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science. “Conventional CCD and CMOS cameras are not fast and sensitive enough. It takes time to read the data from the array of pixels, and they become less sensitive to light at high speed.”

  imaging camera cancer medical research future
  10 months ago reblog like 10 notes
• A 50,000-Megapixel Camera Points and Shoots →

  

  A camera that can see five times better than a person with 20/20 vision is here. The resolution is 50 gigapixels, or 50,000 megapixels. Cameras used by professionals reach the 40-megapixel mark, and a typical point-and-shoot might have eight or 10. The amount of information the gigapixel camera captures in a frame is nearly as much as the amount of data stored on a PC’s hard drive — all for one picture.

  digital camera future imaging
  11 months ago reblog like 19 notes