This handout image taken April 30, 2013, provided by John A.
Rogers, Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign shows the first
digital camera with designs that mimic those of ocular systems
found in dragonflies, bees, praying mantises and other insects.
Taking their cue from Nature, engineers have built a camera
using stretchable electronics that scans the world like a fly's
compound eye -- with a wide field of view and no distortion,
they said May 1, 2013. The digital device, which has a multitude
of tiny, pliable lenses like those found in ant, beetle, and
lobster eyes, also allows for a near-infinite depth of field and
high motion sensitivity, the team wrote in the journal Nature.
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