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Glass is simply paving the way for the future forcing us to deal with the privacy and social issues now. Eventually we will have video recording devices smaller

• octatone2 13y ago
  Invisibility cloaks.
• sethrin 13y ago
  These devices will have very poor image quality. It's not like making small lenses is hard; the properties of light mean that anything usable as a camera will be visible to the naked eye. Cameras can be small, but they cannot be arbitrarily small. Your "What then?" will never happen.
  • acchow 13y ago
    "the properties of light" probably mean we won't have cameras as small as a speck of dust or a grain of sand. But a grain of rice is pretty big. Can you explain why you think that won't be possible?
    • sethrin 13y ago
      You can shrink the lens and CCD down that far[0], but adding in a power source and data storage is likely to increase the size. Batteries are not tracking other improvements in technology. Additionally with a lens that small you're almost certainly going to want some form of image processing. You can move the problems of storage and process if you want to radiate or have a wire, but those introduce other concerns. Shrinking the entire package down to a grain of rice seems overly optimistic. [0] http://lanmdagigi.en.ec21.com/offer_detail/Sell_The_smallest_CCD_camera--7780425.html?gubun=S http://lanmdagigi.en.ec21.com/offer_detail/Sell_The_smallest...