For cellphones equipped with cameras, the light-capturing sensor chip is a matrix of 1, 000-by-1, 000 pixels or more.

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That might be about to change, though, as South Korea's state-owned Korea Electronics Technology Institute has announced a new image sensor chip that promises to take "vibrant photos" in extreme low-light conditions -- all the way down to 1 lux, which is the equivalent light output of a candle shining one meter away.

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