World's first eye-shaped camera
Fri, 8 August 2008
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| source: news.com.au | thanks: sci-fi movies
...makes photographic memories redundant

This? A camera? (well, something like this anyway...)
Researchers in the United States have used 'simple mechanics principles' to create this breakthrough technology, paving the way for distortion-free digital and video cameras for the first time.
It's the size and shape of a human eye, but instead of leaving what we see up to our imaginations, the world's first curved electronic 'eye' camera will allow us to capture distortion-free images.
"Animal eyes are naturally curved for capturing images, but up to now artificial vision systems have been limited to flat image-recording surfaces...Current digital cameras routinely cram more than 10 million pixels into an image, but have not overcome the long-standing problem of distortion created by a flat imager.
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news.com.au
According to British journal
Nature, this new technology also points the way for future devices that could restore sight.
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