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May 4, 2011

World’s Tiniest Video Camera

Just a few weeks ago, the world's tiniest video camera was as small as a grain of rice. Today, the world's nanoest camera is even smaller.

It's made by medical device company Medigus, and it's only 0.99mm wide. The measly fraction of a millimeter doesn't seem like much, but it means a lot in the world of endoscopic/medical procedures. Using a 0.66 x 0.66mm CMOS sensor, this puniest of cameras produces images with a resolution of 45,000 pixels (just under 1/20th of a megapixel).
 
 

12 comments:

Bob said...

Dang that thing is soooo small. I can only imagine the ways that people will use this. I'm never going to use a public bathroom again.

Guy Movie Blogger said...

Well, this is actually kind of scary. Big Brother is coming around after all...

The Awesome Alien said...

is that what they use on the weenie

Sinclair said...

I WANT ONE.

zepdragon said...

This could be useful

choikesta said...

Wow its so small... Wait .. Does that say "monster machines" in the right corner? Lol

ReesesX said...

Holy mother of tinyness

mindph said...

Would like to see example pictures shot by this thingy

Gheko said...

Dam, I wish I could get my hands on this. For all sorts of legal purposes o_o.

Anonymous said...

1/20th megapixel? That picture won't capture any fine details :P

allabout said...

That is really cool. Never seen anything like it before .

Pappa Püllï said...

Wow! Great innovation! :D