{"id":131787,"date":"2021-12-04T17:22:40","date_gmt":"2021-12-05T01:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/this-new-ultra-compact-camera-is-the-size-of-a-grain-of-salt-and-takes-stunning-photos"},"modified":"2021-12-04T17:22:40","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T01:22:40","slug":"this-new-ultra-compact-camera-is-the-size-of-a-grain-of-salt-and-takes-stunning-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/this-new-ultra-compact-camera-is-the-size-of-a-grain-of-salt-and-takes-stunning-photos","title":{"rendered":"This New Ultra-Compact Camera Is The Size of a Grain of Salt And Takes Stunning Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-new-ultra-compact-camera-is-the-size-of-a-grain-of-salt-and-takes-stunning-photos3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientific ingenuity means cameras keep on getting smaller and smaller, and the latest to appear is not only incredibly tiny \u2013 the same size as a grain of salt \u2013 it\u2019s also able to produce images of much better quality than a lot of other ultra-compact cameras.<\/p>\n<p>Using a technology known as a metasurface, which is covered with 1.6 million cylindrical posts, the camera is able to capture full-color photos that are as good as images snapped by conventional lenses some half a million times bigger than this particular camera.<\/p>\n<p>And the super-small contraption has the potential to be helpful in a whole range of scenarios, from helping miniature <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/engineers-built-a-cockroach-inspired-robot-that-can-t-be-squashed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">soft robots<\/a> explore the world, to giving experts a better idea of what\u2019s going on deep inside the human body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientific ingenuity means cameras keep on getting smaller and smaller, and the latest to appear is not only incredibly tiny \u2013 the same size as a grain of salt \u2013 it\u2019s also able to produce images of much better quality than a lot of other ultra-compact cameras. Using a technology known as a metasurface, which [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}