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The 35mm full-frame sensor inside the RX1 camera more than doubles the area of APS-C sensors commonly found in much bulkier DSLR cameras, allowing it to take in significantly more light while capturing content.
ENGADGET: Sony's Cyber-shot RX1 compact camera packs a full-frame sensor, 'fits in your palm' (hands-on)
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Take the 3D sensor inside the Microsoft Kinect, shrink it down to a tenth of its original size and add a bunch of mobile capabilities, and you have yourself PrimeSense's latest conquest, better known as Capri.
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While it's already being used in art galleries and inside cameras (as sensor covers), Nippon Electric Glass is pushing hard to get its invisible glass featured on mobile devices -- the selling point here is simply to achieve the effect of somewhere in between glossy glass and matte glass, so that you'd get the best color vibrancy with minimal reflection.
ENGADGET: Nippon Electric Glass demos liquid crystal lens and 'invisible glass' at CEATEC (video)
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At this Portland Institution, the emphasis is on how the shoe fits, not whether a sensor can fit inside.
NPR: Go the Distance with a Well-Fitted or High-Tech Shoe
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According to the patent, the infrared sensor is positioned inside a smart phone next to the digital camera lens.
FORBES: Body temperature.
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The doll then makes motions and suckling sounds when a sensor in its mouth comes close to sensors inside the flowers.
FORBES: "Breast Milk Baby" Breastfeeding Doll Heading To U.S. Retailers
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Inside, you've got a 16.1-megapixel sensor.
ENGADGET: Casio's Exilim EX-H50 superzooms its way to Photokina, we go hands-on (video)
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All of this is punctuated by a metal top with large metallic knobs, and inside you'll find an APS-C 24.3 megapixel sensor.
ENGADGET: Hasselblad Lunar mirrorless camera hands-on Hands-on
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On the inside is a 1080p camera -- a huge step up from the VGA sensor on the original Kinect.
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Don't expect to see one of these in a commercial DSLR anytime soon (especially now that Mamiya has left the game), but a division of DALSA Semiconductor has successfully manufactured and delivered a 111 megapixel image sensor that's only been topped on these pages by the 500 megapixel monster inside Fermilab's Dark Energy Camera.
ENGADGET: DALSA ships 111 megapixel CCD