It usually happens at the worst time, when you want to shoot the picture of the century: the battery of your digital camera is dead! This era might be over, thanks to researchers of the University of Rochester, who developed two new technologies to extend the lives of our digital cameras. The first one will reduce the power consumption of the chips by a factor of 50 or more while the other will reduce the computational power needed to compress an image when it's captured by a factor of five. These chips should appear in wireless security cameras before being integrated into consumer products such as your camera phone. Read more for other details and references.
Sources: University of Rochester news release, via EurekAlert!, December 7, 2005; and various web sites
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