10 best NASA inventions you own
Camera phones to baby food.
By Staff Writers
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Apr 21 2013, 11:48AM
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In the early 1990s, Eric Fossum was hard at work in NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, trying to downsize the cameras used on spacecraft. His solution was the CMOS Active Pixel Sensor, or ‘camera on a chip’. The miniaturised system paved the way for the sensors found in today’s cameras and phones. They’re perfect for capturing the red, pock marked surface of Mars, or the red, pock marked surface of a teenager’s profile pic.
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