maandag 11 augustus 2008

Artificial eyeball does away with distorted images

By assembling an array of photodiodes bound flexibly with wire, researchers have managed to create curved image sensors that mimic a biological retina (Image: University of Illinois)

NewScientist.com news service, Aug 6, 2008
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne researchers have built a hemispherical digital-image sensor that can take wide-angle pictures without distortion by mimicking the curves of a human retina.
They attached an array of silicon photodiodes on a curved "retina."
The technology may make it possible to give the curved surface of a human retina a coat of digital sensors, helping blind people see again.
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