Daedalnexus Update and Cool Technology

I’ve done a few additional updates to the Daedalnexus.  Check them out.  And check out the new camera technology that’s being developed.

I’ve started migrating the entire Daedalnexus website to Expression Engine, starting with my horribly out-of-date Bio page.  In addition, you’ll notice that the top nav bar has been updated with links to all my sites as well as links to a few sites I read myself.  More links will be added as I come across them.  And I’m sure you’ll notice that I’ve gone and sold my soul to Google.

As for the cool technology, check out what some researchers at Rice University are doing with a single pixel camera.  They’re actually using a single pixel to make images.  The basic idea is that you don’t need 10 megapixels when you’re compressing to JPEG immediately and losing a significant percentage of the overall image quality.  Why bother getting all that quality in the first place if you’re just going to throw it away when the image is compressed?  The technology is table-top at the moment, but taking optical technology from a big optical table to a small optical bench to a camera is a pretty well understood process these days.  I’m going to hazard a guess that it’ll be common technology in non-scientific cameras by the end of the decade (high-end SLRs will still have all those pixels too).