Scanning the skies with 1.4 Gigapixels – The Daily Galaxy

I remember how excited I was when I bought my first 4 Megapixel camera from Kodak.  I didn’t think it could get much better than that.  Now these scientists are showing off their new 1.4 Gigapixel camera in Hawaii.  I wonder how long it will take Kodak to get one of those in my pocket.

Of course, scientists in Hawaii are using this for some serious business – asteroids as small as 300 meters.  After seeing several of those doom and gloom documentaries on The History Channel and The Discovery Channel, I hope that they find what they are looking for before one lands in the Mississippi river.

Scanning the Skies with 1.4 Gigapixels

Cameras are one of the hottest subjects for geek gadget envy, with increasingly evolved camera-phones boasting up to five megapixels, while dedicated camera-carriers brag about the ridiculously high resolution offered by eight megapixels. Which is why MIT took the time to remind us all who the alpha nerds are, building a billion-pixel camera. Which watches out for threats to Earth, as if the sheer ludicrous size of the camera wasn’t cool enough.

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