{"id":3379,"date":"2016-01-13T07:44:02","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T15:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=3379"},"modified":"2016-01-11T22:46:45","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T06:46:45","slug":"rd-how-thin-can-a-camera-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/13\/rd-how-thin-can-a-camera-be\/","title":{"rendered":"R&#038;D: How thin can a camera be?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No lens, no cry\u2014at least for certain applications:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.rice.edu\/2015\/11\/23\/no-lens-no-problem-for-flatcam-2\/\">FlatCam<\/a>, invented by the Rice labs of electrical and computer engineers Richard Baraniuk and Ashok Veeraraghavan, is little more than a thin sensor chip with a mask that replaces lenses in a traditional camera. [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can make curved cameras, or wallpaper that\u2019s actually a camera. You can have a camera on your credit card or a camera in an ultrathin tablet computer.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BdgwO_i5p54?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> \u2028<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/BdgwO_i5p54\">YouTube<\/a>] [Via John Peterson]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No lens, no cry\u2014at least for certain applications: FlatCam, invented by the Rice labs of electrical and computer engineers Richard Baraniuk and Ashok Veeraraghavan, is little more than a thin sensor chip with a mask that replaces lenses in a traditional camera. [\u2026] \u201cWe can make curved cameras, or wallpaper that\u2019s actually a camera. You [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3379"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3379"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3382,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3379\/revisions\/3382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}