niggles Posted June 21, 2012 Big eye Engineers in the United States have built a prototype gigapixel camera the size of a bedside cabinet that can capture an image in a single snapshot with 1000 times more detail than today's devices. It is not the world's first gigapixel camera, but it is the smallest and fastest and opens up prospects for improving airport security, military surveillance and even online sports coverage, its developers say. A pixel is a small light point in a digital image, concentrations of which together form a picture. Today's cameras capture images measured in megapixels - a million pixels - normally between eight and 40 for an average consumer device. A thousand megapixels make a gigapixel, which is thus comprised of a billion pixels. Most of today's gigapixel images are made by digitally merging several megapixel pictures. "Our camera records a one gigapixel image in less than a 10th of a second," says project member David Brady of Duke University. His team's report appear today in the journal Nature. Gigapixel imaging captures details that are invisible to the human eye and can later be examined by zooming in without losing clarity. http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2012/06/21/3530085.htm Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
IndianDreaming Posted June 21, 2012 (edited) Lol - How many pixels am I holding up... Edited June 21, 2012 by IndianDreaming Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Halcyon Daze Posted June 21, 2012 (edited) More incredible technology that will someday be used against us. I think you are holding up three pixels, Indian Dreaming. Edited June 21, 2012 by Halcyon Daze Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
niggles Posted June 21, 2012 Give them back! all the pixels are mine. But you can borrow them I spose. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
IndianDreaming Posted June 21, 2012 (edited) Haha - All the pixels are belong to us... I have bad luck with cameras - maybe one the size of a cabinet like that one wont end up in 1. the ocean, 2. the toilet (don't ask) 3. lost 4. dropped 5. as yet unpurchased... @Halcyon - Correct!... Edited June 21, 2012 by IndianDreaming Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
niggles Posted June 21, 2012 yeah im the same with cameras... they cant survive one tiny little bump on the concrete and then i need to spend hundreds of dollars again. I miss my camera working. Anyone good at non SLR digital cameras? Im pretty sure someone smart could fix mine. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ThunderIdeal Posted June 21, 2012 disregard females, acquire pixels 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Evil Genius Posted June 21, 2012 Great for making Porn... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
at0m Posted June 21, 2012 Great for making Porn... You could take photos of an orgy containing well over a thousand people and it'd still be higher definition than standard porn. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DELETED ACCOUNT Posted June 21, 2012 You could take photos of an orgy containing well over a thousand people and it'd still be higher definition than standard porn. ....and... erm... where might we find said orgies? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
at0m Posted June 21, 2012 ....and... erm... where might we find said orgies? If you have to ask it's clearly not meant to be 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
niggles Posted June 21, 2012 Great for making Porn... CACTUS PORN! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
IndianDreaming Posted June 22, 2012 OMG... google images, safe search off - type 'cactus porn' <-- totally NSFW!!! BAHahahahaha... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DELETED ACCOUNT Posted June 24, 2012 (NSFW thread behind the link... :-O) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
