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University of Washington Scientists with Researchers Microsoft Researc created and already tested a miniature and, moreover, inexpensive hyperspectral camera HyperCam, which is already in the near future smartphones and laptops will be available in the future.
The hyperspectral camera allows you to process light, and therefore any image, in a wider range of the spectrum, demonstrating thereby objects that we cannot see with ordinary sight. It is believed that a modern ordinary camera practically repeats our the eye, although it catches, for example, ghosts and other phantom formations that we simply do not see.
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The capabilities of the HyperCam camera in this regard are much broader, so it’s quite suitable, say, for ghostbusters, although it can be used in many fields of human activity. For example, she will be able to identify people by blood the vessels that see determine the ripeness of the fruit and much another.
Such hyperspectral cameras have been known for a long time, but before recently they were very bulky and expensive, therefore only military and scientists could afford them. With the advent of HyperCam price of an individual camera subject to mass production will not exceed eight hundred dollars, if embedded in a smartphone of her miniature model – fifty dollars. True for of this, its design will have to be slightly modified and minimize what the creators of this are working on now project.
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Note that, in parallel, scientists are working on the same task. Tel Aviv University, although miniature for them a hyperspectral camera is not a tool for entertainment or even ghost search, and the ability to recognize a chemical composition of any materials, which will allow, for example, easy identify electromagnetic signatures and so on.
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