Strobes for Phone Cams

Look for strobe flash in your cell phone's camera soon, based on a design from Linear TechnologyLinear Technology, reports PC World.

"Jim Williams, Linear's staff scientist, says that most current camera cell phones use LED-based lighting, which gives "not a lot of light over not a lot of distance."

His company's photoflash capacitor charger system can efficiently recharge a very small xenon flash lamp in as little as 1 second, producing "light hundreds of times brighter than LEDs," Williams says.

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