The camera in your phone exists because a NASA engineer wanted to shrink spacecraft imaging onto a single chip, while much of his field doubted it could ever match the sensors already flying. Those chips now ship in the billions every year.
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The technology that made smartphone cameras possible started as a contrarian bet against the entire imaging industry's most powerful incumbents. The post The camera in your phone exists because a NASA engineer wanted to shrink spacecraft imaging onto a single chip, while much of his field doubted it could ever match the sensors already flying. Those chips now ship in the billions every year. appeared first on Space Daily .
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