Insect´s eye for gigapixel cameras

Insects have a wide field of view and are acutely sensitive to motion, as anyone who has tried chasing a housefly knows. Researchers have now cinsects_eyereated a digital camera that mimics the curved, compound structure of an insect eye. These cameras could be used where wide viewing angles are important and space is at a premium — in advanced surveillance systems, for example, or in unmanned flying vehicles and endoscopes.

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theater, giga-pix camera

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http://www.agriculture.purdue.edu/agcomm/newscolumns/archives/OSL/2012/June/120614OSL.html#.U7LozrE0-So

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