Got you one of those fancy digital deals to handle all of your photography needs? Think all those mega pixels make you more nimble on the shutter?Well some optical science folks are doing their part to make sure that pricey camera of yours is nothing more than last generation's overpowered, under performing chunk of electronic waste.
According to this story, researchers are hard at work perfecting a singe-pixel digital camera that gathers images in infrared, ultraviolet and visible color schemes. Basically, you'll end up with an image obtained much more quickly with less power and less memory requirements for storage. (this photos is not the actual camera)
The same news source included information about another neat photo-related project underway. Apparently a couple of guys have invented a way to disable digital camera equipment.
The device uses sensors, lighting equipment, a projector and a computer to scan for, find and neutralize digital cameras. It looks for the reflectivity and shape of the image-producing sensors used in digital cameras. Future versions might operate in the invisible infrared range so the neutralizing technology would work unnoticed.So in the future, we'll have smarter and faster digital cameras being thwarted by even smarter anti-digital equipment. I applaud the ingenuity of both efforts.
But I was a little troubled to see that all is not well on the photo front. Consider this item:
The main camera on the Hubble Space Telescope has shut down unexpectedly for the second time this year.
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