An ‘origami lens’ for your camera phone?

Your next camera phone might get a new kind of lens if researchers at the University of California at San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering convince the cell phones makers. Roland Piquepaille reports on Blogs ZDNet.

They have designed an 'origami lens' which will slim high resolution cameras.

Today, their 5-millimeter thick, 8-fold imager delivers images comparable in quality with photos taken with a compact camera lens with a 38 millimeter focal length. In a few years, these bendable lenses could be used in high resolution miniature cameras for unmanned surveillance aircraft, cell phones and infrared night vision applications.

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