Mar 14 2011We Lost Another One: Smallest Video Camera
You see that picture? That's a needle at the bottom. I know, I thought it was a knight's jousting lance at first too and was all, "PFFT, THAT CAMERA AIN'T SO SMALL!" But no, it's a needle. Which you and I both know is like double the circumference of your protractor. What? I'm a urinal peeper!
This tiny camera was designed to shoot video inside the human body, replacing the more common fiber optic endoscope.
The camera itself is about 1 millimeter cubed, or about the same size as that eyeball computer we saw a couple of weeks ago.With 62,500 pixel resolution, the images should be pretty sharp, and what's really neat is the developer Fraunhofer says the camera will be cheap enough to be disposable.
"Cheap enough to be disposable", riiiiiiiight. I'd like to see the itemized bill first before I let a doctor throw away/leave the camera floating around in my gut.
- Rubber gloves: $4
- Disposable Camera: $600
- Forceps $30
- Removal of action figure from rectum: $1,000
- Removal of action figure playset from rectum: $3,000
Six-hundred bucks?! Aww hell naw -- I'm returning it. *chugs Fiber Cleanse, packing-tapes pasta strainer to toilet seat*
World's smallest video camera is ready to peer inside your body [dvice]
Thanks to Mark, who knows a guy that once managed to wedge an entire Sony Handycam...I'm just gonna stop right there.
Reader Comments
1. Shelbon - March 14, 2011 12:46 PM
now we will finally know what a kidney looks like. This is amazing, I've been wondering about that for years
2. Jonesy - March 14, 2011 12:49 PM
OMG I can't wait to see what a human heart looks like!!!!111
3. Biwamaru - March 14, 2011 12:51 PM
can i used in my penis while im having sex thats science!!!
4. Richard McBeef - March 14, 2011 12:52 PM
I heard the developer sent thousands of them to japan to help look up the skirts of women removing rubble in the aftermath of the earthquake.
5. Jonesy - March 14, 2011 12:54 PM
@4
Too soon man......
At least wait till the women are on their break from rubble removing... being stationary provides a more convenient view.
6. Ciao - March 14, 2011 1:21 PM
That's pretty neat, it seems small enough to travel into most organs and face holes.
7. Citizen Kane - March 14, 2011 1:38 PM
Disposable? DISPOSABLE? And you mean to tell me Apple is STILL giving us shit cameras on their devices?
8. Ciao - March 14, 2011 1:41 PM
Why can't they make a disposable cover? It's cost effective and as sanitary.
9. Mr Spacer - March 14, 2011 2:40 PM
Ha Ha Ha playset.
10. Wait, what? - March 14, 2011 3:37 PM
"With 62,500 pixel resolution, the images should be pretty sharp"
62,500 pixel resolution? Sharp? No way in hell. That's like about 300x200 resolution. You can't see shit with that.
Of course it doesn't actually say that in the original article it's just something some clever guy added while copy&pasting it.
I admit it might be relatively sharp for a camera the size of a grain of salt but still that's pretty much the smallest resolution you'll find anywhere nowadays.
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