{"id":137828,"date":"2022-04-07T16:27:29","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T21:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/this-crumb-sized-camera-uses-artificial-intelligence-to-get-big-results"},"modified":"2022-04-07T16:27:29","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T21:27:29","slug":"this-crumb-sized-camera-uses-artificial-intelligence-to-get-big-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/this-crumb-sized-camera-uses-artificial-intelligence-to-get-big-results","title":{"rendered":"This crumb-sized camera uses artificial intelligence to get big results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-crumb-sized-camera-uses-artificial-intelligence-to-get-big-results3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Say cheese! Researchers have developed a tiny camera that takes amazingly clear photos. Just don\u2019t sneeze while it\u2019s in your hand. At the size of a coarse grain of salt, you may never find it again.<\/p>\n<p>Smaller cameras could mean lighter smartphones and new James Bond\u2013style gadgets. But that\u2019s not all. Cameras on this scale could <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencenewsforstudents.org\/article\/robots-may-soon-actively-crawl-through-your-gut\">swim through the body<\/a>, hitch a ride on an insect, scope out your brain or monitor hostile environments. And those are just a few of the possibilities.<\/p>\n<p>How do you pack that much picture-taking power into something the size of a crumb? It takes a \u201cradically different approach\u201d to making a camera lens, says Felix Heide. He\u2019s a computer scientist at Princeton University in New Jersey. His lab developed the camera with colleagues from the University of Washington in Seattle. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-021-26443-0\">The team shared its work<\/a> in <em>Nature Communications<\/em> in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Say cheese! Researchers have developed a tiny camera that takes amazingly clear photos. Just don\u2019t sneeze while it\u2019s in your hand. At the size of a coarse grain of salt, you may never find it again. Smaller cameras could mean lighter smartphones and new James Bond\u2013style gadgets. But that\u2019s not all. Cameras on this scale [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137828","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}