Engineers John Rogers of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Yonggang Huang of Northwestern University, Chicago have created an electronic eye-shaped camera that uses a new class of electronics technology that can conform to almost any shape of a human eye. The new retina-like camera sensor uses flexible photosensitive pixels.
“Using simple mechanics principles, the researchers have produced, for the first time, electronic devices on a hemispherical surface so that they can take images much like those captured by the human eye,” said Ken Chong, advisor in the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Directorate, who is one of the officers overseeing the researchers’ National Science Foundation grant, in a statement.
— See more slides at CRN.com
Tags: camera, electronic eye, photosensitive pixels, Science, scientists, sensor, technology
Entries (RSS)
August 8th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
Will it create three dimensional photos? Like a human eye? Interesting article.
August 8th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
“flexible photosensitive pixels” …. sound like pixels are flexible and photosensitive. Really ?
August 9th, 2008 at 12:46 am
That looks more like the trouble bubble than anything scientific
August 9th, 2008 at 1:43 am
I think I get the gist of it and can envision some of the potential uses of the new technology. Absolutely fascinating.
August 11th, 2008 at 3:06 am
so where can they use this camera?
lots of possibilities! maybe in simulation programs or something?