The miniaturization of pixel size impacts performance of light sensitivity and signal to noise ratio (SNR) in today's 1.12 micrometer pixel image sensors.
Around 17, 000 people will be living within the so-called "noise-sensitive" zone once the airport is built, and 1, 000 will have to be re-housed as the hamlets of Vermandovillers and Lihons are razed to make way for the runway.
On 1 December the man was traced when rescuers listened to the background noise of the helicopter travelling back and forth along the mountainside to pinpoint his location.
The firm maintains that it had been pitching its patented noise cancellation to Apple in periodic meetings between 2007 and 2010, only to watch as 1 Infinite Loop used Audience's technology for the iPhone 4 instead -- and supposedly handed some of Noise Free's work to a competitor.
The camera's other specs look decent as well: 7.1 megapixel resolution, 3 fps shooting and a new low-power CMOS that Olympus claims reduces noise at high ISO settings.