At a glance, this teeny tiny cuboid looks like some sort of fragment chipped off from an electronic device. It would be understandable to think of that when seeing this.
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But don’t be fooled. This is not a fragment. This is a camera. The world’s smallest camera.
That’s right. This cuboid the size of a grain of sand is a camera, and it’s the world’s smallest one, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. Called the Omnivision OV6948, the camera boasts a size of 0.65 x 0.65 x 1.158 mm. It can capture 200×200 resolution images at 30 frames per second. The raw images taken from the camera are blurry at first. But with some clean-up help from a custom algorithm to process the images, the pictures become recognizable.
Of course, we’d be asking, “what could we do with a tiny camera?” Well, for one, it could be used in the medical field. As the camera is designed to fit inside human veins, this camera becomes a helplful tool for doctors when they diagnose or perform surgeries.
The OmniVision OV6948 is developed by scientists at the University of Washington and manufactured by the semiconductor manufacturing company OmniVision Technologies.
(Images: OmniVision OV6948 Worlds Smallest Camera via Laptop-Spec)
Source: neatorama