Non-zooming compact camera modeled on the human eye
JAN 28, 2011
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.025009
New Scientist : James Urquhart, writing for New Scientist, describes a camera inspired by the operation of the human eye. The camera can zoom without the need for bulky lenses, making it more compact than conventional cameras. The device builds on a non-zooming eyeball camera developed in 2008 by John Rogers of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Now he has given the technology a twist by building in a stretchable lens and a flexible photodetector whose shape alters as the magnification of the lens changes. The technology could be used in such devices as night-vision cameras and endoscopes.
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