DARPA’s New Tiny Night Vision Camera Could Give Every Soldier Sight In the Dark

DARPA - fund DRS Technologies , Inc has developeda fresh 1280 x 720 night vision camerawith pixels just five micrometer across — that ’s reportedly just one - duodecimal the size of it of a human hair . So . Small . The Modern technical school is n’t just way more hard-nosed , it could save the government a bundle of money , too .

The military apply advanced thermal infrared cameras to see at night , but according to theDoD ’s R&D section , they ’re too awkward , heavy , and expensive to issue to private soldier . The new developed imaging engineering is apparently dramatically smaller such that a person can realistically comport it . It ’s also bum : The imaging chip cost more or less depending on their size , so by the transitive property of government spending , little pixels be savings . ( There ’s no acknowledgment of how much it would be to deploy these to a magnanimous phone number of soldiers . )

Even if the new television camera does n’t end up a standard issue piece of gear for every grunt , it purportedly offer improved functioning despite its lilliputian size of it . Nice to see DARPA developing nerveless tech that ’s both innovative and loose on the purse . [ DARPAviaPopSci ]

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