[EMAIL PROTECTED] thought you would be interested in this article at Salon.com (http://www.salon.com/). - - - - - - - - - - - - Camera on a chip By Mark Compton http://www.salon.com/tech/view/2000/05/22/kemeny/index.html In the early '90s, a crack team of researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) set out to dramatically advance the state of image-capture technology. Their goal: smaller, cheaper, faster image sensors that could work using less power than the CCD (charge-coupled device) chipsets that had been carried aboard all previous space missions. It just so happens that that team, led by Eric Fossum, managed to hit a major home run -- exploiting standard CMOS technology to invent new - - - - - - - - - - - -
