At 02:49 PM 7/8/04 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote:

I'd also point out that imaging technology (eg, CCDs) are moving like a

bat

out of hell, though I'm not sure of the relevance vz Cypherpunks.

Although its kinda boring and dry, Brill's work on ubiquitous cameras is relevent to this list. In the EE trade mags I've seen 1. how to do strobe flashes efficiently with camera batteries 2. piezo and/or hydraulic autofocus mechanisms being developed. For cellcams. Stabilization will come too. And the CMOS boys are fighting to get their sensors as good as CCDs, though it really doesn't matter, the volume is so high, you can use funky fabs --just like primitive 6" wafer fabs being used for cellphone power amps. Heck, big fat 1 uM wires are better for analog. And you can still have your 0.1 uM CMOS logic do the compression to save bandwidth, which is the commodity being sold, the handset part of the contract. In the future only pros will own gizmos that only take pictures. Just like only surveyors and farmers would own a gizmo that only does GPS.