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Sony has announced a new digital image sensor designed for video cameras, more specifically security cameras, able to take 8k videos at 30 frames per second.  8k requires a resolution of 8192×4320 pixels, that would be 35 Mpixels, approximately, and the chip has a 8192×5556 pixels, 47+Mpixels. 8k is a …

The number of photos taken everyday is mind-boggling. And, to tell the truth, no one knows exactly how many. The info I was able to gather on the web varies widely, from 1 trillion to 15 trillion photos taken in 2018, that means between 2.7 to 41 billion photos every …

Samsung has announced the availability of two image sensors designed for smartphone cameras, one cramming 48Mpixels on the sensors, the other 64Mpixels. Both have a pixel size of 0.8µm, hence the 64Mpixels sensor is a bit larger in size than its sibling. The small size of the pixel is bound …

The goal of augmenting human capabilities has always been there, for as far as we can tell. The control of fire was a tremendous augmentation that had deep consequences on our species. Cooking food opened up new ways of nourishment and made our species more adaptable to hostile environment and …

Bikes today are a long cry, in terms of technology and performance from the ones I used as a kid, sixty years ago (my grandfather had a little bike workshop so you can imagine I had access to the latest …). In the past twenty years the materials used have …

5G is just round the corner (a few are claiming it is already here but I beg to differ) and it will bring very little perceivable changes to 99% of what we are doing. You will be very hard to tell if you are talking using 5G or 4G (or …

All smartphones look alike and it is difficult to get excited on their design (unless you are selling them …). So when a foldable phone, actually two of them, hits the market I can understand the big headlines. Along with them, pretty sure you saw them, you are starting to …

I started my discussion on Digital Platforms considering the one created by smartphones because it was easy to point out the basic characteristics of a Digital Platform: it needs to have storage capabilities it needs to have processing capabilities it needs to have embedded connectivity it needs to be open to …

Let me start with a note: in no way this post has to be seen as disrespectfuf to Buddhism, nor to any other religion. It is not intended to be at all. I spent a few vacation days in Chiang Rai, a wonderful place in the Northern Thailand, nice people, …

The second disruption that swept the photographic world was again the result of technology evolution although it was sprinkled with cultural aspects, fuelled by flanking value chains, making this an interesting disruption to analyse. As shown in the graphic produced by the Camera and Imaging Product Association the market of …