With no lens and capturing only a blur of light, a new type of camera developed by Rambus barely meets the definition of the word. But it’s so small and cheap to make that it could be included in just about any device.
A Microscopic Lens-Free Image Sensor Could Turn Anything Into a Camera
This tiny piece of glass may not look like much, but in fact its surface is cleverly etched to capture light, and it contains a small chip to process the incident light. Yep, it’s a tiny camera that could provide any object—however small—with the means of capturing images.
Lens-Free Camera Sees Things Differently
Patrick Gill is excited to show me a small, fuzzy-looking picture of the Mona Lisa, printed in black and white on a piece of paper. It’s not much to look at, literally, but it’s unmistakably her, with long dark hair and that mysterious smile.
5 Reasons for MNOs to Support Host Card Emulation
Verimatrix Calls Time On Hardware Security
Pay TV operators are abandoning traditional smartcard based CA (Conditional Access) systems to adopt software solutions, according to revenue security vendor Verimatrix. But ironically this trend has been accelerated by incorporation of ASIC security cores inside set-top box and gateway SoCs (System on Chips), blurring the distinction between hardware and software security.
Security Matters in the Face of the Internet of Things
One billion smartphones were sold in the last five years; an impressive number, no doubt. But did you know we also added 244 million smart grid devices, over 5 billion consumer electronics devices, and over 500 million connected appliances in the same timespan? Our planet gained nearly 10 billion connected “Things” in the last five years, but this is just the tip of the iceberg. The potential of wearable and smart sensor technologies suggest that we’re well on our way to realizing the full impact of the Internet of Things.
