What’s that in your fancy, expensive digital SLR camera: 40 megapixels? Yawn. Researchers have designed a camera that could take 50,000-megapixel shots. Though the team has currently built and tested ...

Keeping up with technology is a constant race. Moore’s Law makes sure of that, despite recent news that the well-known processing power law (the doubling of transistors per unit area) will reach its ...

It’s a bit of a truism that bigger sensors lead to better pictures when it comes to photography. Of course everyone who isn’t a photographer knows that moar megapixles is moar better. So, when ...

The camera's resolution is five times better than 20/20 human vision over a 120 degree horizontal field. The researchers believe that within five years, as the electronic components of the cameras ...

We, humans, love life’s finer details. And thanks to a team at the Rijksmuseum—the Netherlands’ national arts and history museum—one of Rembrandt’s most famous paintings has now been archived in finer ...

Melanoma is the fifth most common cancer type in the United States, and it's also the deadliest form of skin cancer, causing more than 75 percent of skin-cancer deaths. If caught early enough though, ...

Tone mapping creates an individual 32-bit/8-bit conversion for each pixel in the scene, but ensures that the mappings vary smoothly from pixel to pixel 14. The majority of the display dynamic range is ...

Researchers have developed a new type of microscope that stitches together video from 54 individual cameras and lenses. Whether recording high-speed, 3D, gigapixel movies of the behavior of dozens of ...

You may think your new ten-megapixel camera is pretty hot –- but not when you compare it to the 1.8 Gigapixel beast built for the Pentagon. The camera is designed as a payload for the A-160T ...

Big eye Engineers in the United States have built a prototype gigapixel camera the size of a bedside cabinet that can capture an image in a single snapshot with 1000 times more detail than today's ...