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DAY 8 | PHOTOGRAPHIC CURIOSITIES |
World’s Smallest Camera
“SWALLOW THIS CAMERA AND CALL ME IN THE MORNING”
In this age of rapid technological developments, any attempt at definitively naming the “world’s smallest camera” may very well be obsolete by the time this book goes to print.
Be that as it may, the electronics company Misumi appears to take the cake for now, having created the 1/18-inch-wide CMOS camera chip. The chip can be used with a camera attached to a bendable wire, allowing it to be snaked through tracts in the human body or hard-to-reach pipelines; the “snake camera” can be equipped with varying lenses, offering up to a 105-degree ...
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