{"id":70618,"date":"2017-07-05T21:03:26","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T04:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/this-camera-technology-doesnt-have-a-lens-at-all"},"modified":"2017-07-10T12:00:54","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T19:00:54","slug":"this-camera-technology-doesnt-have-a-lens-at-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/this-camera-technology-doesnt-have-a-lens-at-all","title":{"rendered":"This Camera Technology Doesn\u2019t Have a Lens at All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0qR7SU87So0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Engineers have developed a type of camera that doesn\u2019t require any lenses. They\u2019re replacing curved glass with something that does the same job computationally \u2013 an ultra-thin optical phased array.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers hope that the findings could turn a wide range of flat surfaces into image collectors.<\/p>\n<p>To capture the perfect selfie or Instagram photo, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/this-tiny-camera-squeezes-in-16-lenses-to-create-52-megapixel-photos\">cameras use lenses<\/a>. In digital cameras, the lenses are used to focus the light on to a digital sensor. The optical phased array has a group of light receivers that adds a minute delay to the light as it is captured. This allows the camera to switch focus and look in different directions using nothing but electronic trickery.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/this-camera-technology-doesn-t-have-a-lens-at-all-and-it-s-amazing\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/this-camera-technology-doesn-t-h...-s-amazing<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engineers have developed a type of camera that doesn\u2019t require any lenses. They\u2019re replacing curved glass with something that does the same job computationally \u2013 an ultra-thin optical phased array. Researchers hope that the findings could turn a wide range of flat surfaces into image collectors. To capture the perfect selfie or Instagram photo, cameras [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70618","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70649,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70618\/revisions\/70649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}