[HN Gopher] AEgIS turns phone sensors into antimatter camera of ...
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AEgIS turns phone sensors into antimatter camera of unprecedented
resolution
Author : rbanffy
Score : 68 points
Date : 2025-04-03 23:08 UTC (3 days ago)
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| gaudat wrote:
| I dig that PCB design. The panopticon (?) artwork and how the
| decoupling caps are lined up perfectly along the circumference.
| cameron_b wrote:
| I found details about a talk[0][1] given by the hardware team,
| their names are on the blurry side of the picture in the top
| link - Authors: GUATIERI, Francesco (Universita degli Studi di
| Trento); MUENSTER, Markus (Student); BERGHOLD, Michael (NEPOMUC
| / FRM2)
|
| The name OPHANIM seems to be the combination of "Optical
| Photons and Antimatter Imager" as written in the silkscreen
| below the exposed ground.
|
| And a crude take at the further inscription - Ex Saxis Homo
| Fecit Oculos Per Artem Ingeniumque Nunc Monstrum Usum Est ad
| Universum Resiscendum
|
| "Man made eyes from stones through art and ingenuity. Now the
| monster has been used to re-emerge from the universe."
|
| I haven't found a recording of the authors giving that talk or
| any significantly different materials, but the references to
| 'Ophanim' seem to be associated with Ezekiel's apocalyptic
| writings, and angels with many eyes, so that seems to fit.
|
| [0] https://indico.frm2.tum.de/event/484/contributions/5093/
| [1] https://indico.mlz-
| garching.de/event/484/contributions/5093/...
| rbanffy wrote:
| At last a biblically accurate camera ;-)
| InDubioProRubio wrote:
| While do !Fear
| sinuhe69 wrote:
| Does anyone have more information about the design and the
| technical details of the projects? The article like any cooperate
| announcement is full of bull words but void of details.
| orbital-decay wrote:
| Actual paper:
| https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ads1176
|
| _> based on the Sony IMX219 (...) Its 1.12 mm by 1.12 mm
| pixels are 50 times smaller than that of Timepix3 and of size
| similar to that of nuclear emulsions grains._
|
| I never expected the tiny pixel size to be an advantage
| anywhere, to be honest.
| aitchnyu wrote:
| Smartphone tide lifting other boats: reverse cameras, heat
| rejecting Gorilla glass windows and now this.
| rbanffy wrote:
| Tiny power-sipping embedded processors as well. And MEMS gyros
| and accelerometers.
| dist-epoch wrote:
| Same as gaming creating the GPU market which facilitated large
| neural networks.
| rbanffy wrote:
| Don't forget GPGPUs doing that for HPC (first), then crypto,
| then AI.
| m463 wrote:
| But are the images portrait or landscape?
|
| EDIT: more seriously, smartphones have displaced a lot of
| important dedicated devices. Dedicated cameras are barely
| hanging on.
| mohas wrote:
| I can imagine seeing on my mobile: we have removed antimatter
| detection permission from unused apps
| Mordisquitos wrote:
| For a moment I was thinking now that's some astronomical
| feature creep from the Aegis Authenticator app that I use...
| https://getaegis.app/
| amelius wrote:
| What happens when an antimatter camera comes into contact with
| normal matter?
| tempodox wrote:
| Bang!
|
| You will not want to be in the vicinity.
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