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No matter how good your smartphone camera is, it can show you only a fraction of the detail Alex Hegyi can with the one he's built at Xerox's PARC in Palo Alto CA. That's because Hegyi's camera also records parts of the spectrum of light that you can't see. Since Hegyi'...

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Published inTechnology review (1998) Vol. 119; no. 5; p. 58
Main Author Anon
Format Magazine Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge Technology Review, Inc 01.09.2016
Subjects
Brain
Cameras
Cancer
Consumers
Counterfeit
Counterfeiting
Design
Drones
Engineers
Fruits
Harnesses
Radios
Sensors
Smartphones
Software
Stores
Studies
Ultrasonic imaging
Visible spectrum
Wavelengths
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Summary:No matter how good your smartphone camera is, it can show you only a fraction of the detail Alex Hegyi can with the one he's built at Xerox's PARC in Palo Alto CA. That's because Hegyi's camera also records parts of the spectrum of light that you can't see. Since Hegyi's camera logs a wider range of wavelengths, it can be used for everything from checking produce at the grocery store fruits increasingly absorb certain wavelengths as they ripen to spotting counterfeit drugs the real ones reflect a distinctive pattern. In the near future, Hegyi hopes, his technology can be added to smartphone cameras, so anyone can make and use apps that harness so-called hyperspectral imaging. Three to five years from now, Hegyi thinks, your phone could be revealing information that isn't available in the visible spectrum of light. With such a tool, he says, consumers themselves don't have to know anything about wavelengths -- they can take a picture and the display can say counterfeit or real.
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ISSN:1099-274X
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