{"id":134613,"date":"2022-01-24T16:23:48","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T00:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/for-better-phone-pix-ditch-glass-lenses-for-silicon-chips"},"modified":"2022-01-24T16:23:48","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T00:23:48","slug":"for-better-phone-pix-ditch-glass-lenses-for-silicon-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/for-better-phone-pix-ditch-glass-lenses-for-silicon-chips","title":{"rendered":"For Better Phone Pix, Ditch Glass Lenses for Silicon Chips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/for-better-phone-pix-ditch-glass-lenses-for-silicon-chips.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week, startup <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metalenz.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" announced that it has created a silicon chip that, paired with an image sensor, can distinguish objects by the way they polarize light. The company says its \u201cPolarEyes\u201d will be able to make facial authentication less vulnerable to spoofing, improve 3D imaging for augmented and virtual reality, aid in telehealth by distinguishing different types of skin cells, and enhance driving safety by spotting black ice and other hard-to-see road hazards.\n\nThe company, founded in 2017 and <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/can-silicon-nanostructures-knock-plastic-lenses-out-of-cell-phone-cameras\" target=\"_self\" class=\"\">exiting stealth a year ago<\/a>, previously announced that it was commercializing waveguides composed of silicon nanostructures as an alternative to traditional optics for use in mobile devices.<\/p>\n<p>Metalenz recently began a partnership with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.st.com\/content\/st_com\/en.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">ST Microelectronics<\/a> to move its technology into mass production and expects to be shipping imaging packages sometime in the second quarter of this year, according to CEO Robert Devlin.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, startup<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134613","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}