Researchers shrink camera to the size of a salt grain
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Researchers shrink camera to the size of a salt grain
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#2Could two of these cameras create stereoscopic videos that can let us feel what it would be like to be so tiny?
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#3…something something privacy…
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#4Localizers are a thing now.
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#5Incredible. I guess the first use I thought of was swallowing the camera to identify bowel issues. Can’t wait to see what they come up with.
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#6That guy Felix Heide is a research powerhouse. He and his group published 4 papers in SIGGRAPH 21, 7 papers in CVPR 21 and 6 papers in CVPR 2020, wow.
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#7Incredible. I guess the first use I thought of was swallowing the camera to identify bowel issues. Can’t wait to see what they come up with.
That's mentioned in the article
> Enabled by a joint design of the camera’s hardware and computational processing, the system could enable minimally invasive endoscopy with medical robots to diagnose and treat diseases, and improve imaging for other robots with size and weight constraints. Arrays of thousands of such cameras could be used for full-scene sensing, turning surfaces into cameras.
There are existing swallowable capsule endoscopy devices like the PillCam[1], the entirety of which is 11mm x 26mm[2]
[1] https://www.medtronic.com/covidien/en-us/products/capsule-en...
[2] https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/johns_hopkins_bayview/_docs/...
Re: Researchers shrink camera to the size of a salt grain
#8Incredible. I guess the first use I thought of was swallowing the camera to identify bowel issues. Can’t wait to see what they come up with.
If it could see through feces, that would be awesome. The worst part, by far, of a colonoscopy is the prep. And the prep is needed for a clean view. A smaller camera isn't going to help with cleaning things up. Improving the optical clarity of existing small-scope procedures (like cardioscope) would probably be the first application.
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#9Localizers are a thing now.
I had the same thought! Now, can they create a mesh network and operate as a distributed processor?
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#10…something something privacy…
I've given up on privacy. Cameras will be watching our every step. The only positive is it might make cops/feds more honest if they know they are being recorded at every step?