{"id":27330,"date":"2016-06-29T00:46:32","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T07:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/smart-dust-is-coming-new-camera-is-the-size-of-a-grain-of-salt"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:54:38","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:54:38","slug":"smart-dust-is-coming-new-camera-is-the-size-of-a-grain-of-salt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/smart-dust-is-coming-new-camera-is-the-size-of-a-grain-of-salt","title":{"rendered":"Smart Dust Is Coming: New Camera Is the Size of a Grain of Salt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/smart-dust-is-coming-new-camera-is-the-size-of-a-grain-of-salt.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Miniaturization is one of the most world-shaking trends of the last several decades. Computer chips now have features measured in billionths of a meter. Sensors that once weighed kilograms fit inside your smartphone. But it doesn\u2019t end there.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers are aiming to take sensors smaller\u2014much smaller.<\/p>\n<p>In a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nphoton\/journal\/vaop\/ncurrent\/full\/nphoton.2016.121.html\">University of Stuttgart paper<\/a> published in Nature Photonics, scientists describe tiny 3D printed lenses and show how they can take super sharp images. Each lens is 120 millionths of a meter in diameter\u2014roughly the size of a grain of table salt\u2014and because they\u2019re 3D printed in one piece, complexity is no barrier. Any lens configuration that can be designed on a computer can be printed and used.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2016\/06\/28\/smart-dust-is-coming-new-camera-is-the-size-of-a-grain-of-salt\/?utm_source=Singularity+Hub+Newsletter&utm_campaign=ba9f7b1f14-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_Daily&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f0cf60cdae-ba9f7b1f14-57450241\">http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2016\/06\/28\/smart-dust-is-coming-ne...5;57450241<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miniaturization is one of the most world-shaking trends of the last several decades. Computer chips now have features measured in billionths of a meter. Sensors that once weighed kilograms fit inside your smartphone. But it doesn\u2019t end there. Researchers are aiming to take sensors smaller\u2014much smaller. In a new University of Stuttgart paper published in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,1523,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-computing","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27330","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27330"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67068,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27330\/revisions\/67068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}