The world’s smallest video camera is the size of a salt grain

How small can a camera get? Pretty damn small. The engineers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration worked together with Awaiba GmbH and the Fraunhofer Institue for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering, and developed a video camera that is as small as a grain of salt – or 1 cubic millimeter if you want to get mathematical. The cameras have a resolution of 62,500 pixels and transmit images via an electrical cable to ensure high resolution video of whatever it is shooting. The cameras will also be inexpensive to create, thus making them disposable devices, perfect for use in medicine – doctors won’t have to spend time sterilizing a camera each time after use. Such cameras will also be used in automotive designs, where it could replace side view mirrors to make cars even more aerodynamic. Frauhofer Institute plans to introduce the camera to the market sometime next year. It looks like spy cams are going to be so much harder to detect.

George Wong
Categories: Gadgets, Medical
Tags: Camera, Video