Think of it this way: if we took one-thousandth of a second of footage from the femto camera video output and slowed it down to the speed of 30 seconds per frame -- the approximate speed of a standard TV broadcast -- it would take us a lifetime to watch.

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But Mr. Obama made clear he intends to speed the time frame.

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Certainly I would be willing to sacrifice a bit of power consumption in order to get a bit more speed and more reliable frame rates.

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