sabianq
28th of September 2010 (Tue), 19:36
apparently i am a "technofuturist" at heart and i practice predicting the way technology "will be" down the road.
I base my personal assumptions on the rate of change of current technology over a given time period..
lately i have been thinking about the trends in sensor designs..
and saw some interesting technical mutations like "dynamic ISO (DISO? lol)"
across the sensor meaning that the sensor can be divided into regions where the ISO can be different in different parts of the sensor at the same time..
that lead to the technology where each pixel can be dynamic and can change the ISO of each individual sensors sensor or pixel.
all independent sensor sensitivity could make for an infinite dynamic ranged sensor.
so you would not only a photon count showing "luminosity" in bit depth,
Rather each pixel will attribute a color depth expressed in 12, 14 or 16 bit samples and a variable per pixel sensitivity of a 12, 14, or 16 bits...
Aspherical sensors equivalent in surface area to a smaller 120 but taking up the same space as smaller flat sensor.
a proper curved sensor could very well take care of any perspective distortion caused by a flat sensor.
Nano technology is the other technology.
tiny carbon rods would act as "light" antenna and could be used as ultra high efficient visible "light to signal" converters .
each carbon tube resonating at the frequency of light that hits it and converting that resonance directly to an electrical signal.
maybe even reaching efficiencies just shy of 100 percent.
capturing every stray photon with advances in optical transmission coefficients in lens architecture.
this could lead to super fast lens capable of being far less than 1/f
Nano technology leads to new micro-lens developments..
imagine having a sensor with a lens the size of the wavelength of the light.
you could place cameras on contact lens and they would be so small you can see through them,
the other side will have little projectors based on ultra low power multi line laser technology.
resulting in super high resolution images projected directly onto the back of your retina..
a Nano computer circuit running the whole thing getting instructions directly from your brain..
and they will be so cheap everyone will have them they will be disposable.
but that is OK, because the computers and other crap we use today are disposable anyway.
when we have a computer, monitor and camera, all integrated into a package that weighs (weight of contact lens). 0.058 g would cut way back on resource use..
I base my personal assumptions on the rate of change of current technology over a given time period..
lately i have been thinking about the trends in sensor designs..
and saw some interesting technical mutations like "dynamic ISO (DISO? lol)"
across the sensor meaning that the sensor can be divided into regions where the ISO can be different in different parts of the sensor at the same time..
that lead to the technology where each pixel can be dynamic and can change the ISO of each individual sensors sensor or pixel.
all independent sensor sensitivity could make for an infinite dynamic ranged sensor.
so you would not only a photon count showing "luminosity" in bit depth,
Rather each pixel will attribute a color depth expressed in 12, 14 or 16 bit samples and a variable per pixel sensitivity of a 12, 14, or 16 bits...
Aspherical sensors equivalent in surface area to a smaller 120 but taking up the same space as smaller flat sensor.
a proper curved sensor could very well take care of any perspective distortion caused by a flat sensor.
Nano technology is the other technology.
tiny carbon rods would act as "light" antenna and could be used as ultra high efficient visible "light to signal" converters .
each carbon tube resonating at the frequency of light that hits it and converting that resonance directly to an electrical signal.
maybe even reaching efficiencies just shy of 100 percent.
capturing every stray photon with advances in optical transmission coefficients in lens architecture.
this could lead to super fast lens capable of being far less than 1/f
Nano technology leads to new micro-lens developments..
imagine having a sensor with a lens the size of the wavelength of the light.
you could place cameras on contact lens and they would be so small you can see through them,
the other side will have little projectors based on ultra low power multi line laser technology.
resulting in super high resolution images projected directly onto the back of your retina..
a Nano computer circuit running the whole thing getting instructions directly from your brain..
and they will be so cheap everyone will have them they will be disposable.
but that is OK, because the computers and other crap we use today are disposable anyway.
when we have a computer, monitor and camera, all integrated into a package that weighs (weight of contact lens). 0.058 g would cut way back on resource use..