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congeriesScanning the future: A new type of digital camera
"At first sight, the idea of making a digital camera that looks at its subject a single pixel at a time sounds insane. A pixel is one of the dots of which a picture is composed, so this would be like peering at the world through a moving straw.
However, when a pixel can be captured in just 40 billionths of a second, the idea seems slightly less stupid. In one second, such a system could take 30 pictures with the resolution of a standard laptop screen."
компания, которая разрабатывает эту технологию, Microvision, делает и другие забавные вещички, для настоящих кочевников:
"At first sight, the idea of making a digital camera that looks at its subject a single pixel at a time sounds insane. A pixel is one of the dots of which a picture is composed, so this would be like peering at the world through a moving straw.
However, when a pixel can be captured in just 40 billionths of a second, the idea seems slightly less stupid. In one second, such a system could take 30 pictures with the resolution of a standard laptop screen."
компания, которая разрабатывает эту технологию, Microvision, делает и другие забавные вещички, для настоящих кочевников:
