[If you cannot see the flash video below, you can click here for
a high quality mp4 video.] Interviewee: John Rogers, University
of Illinois Urbana Champaign All Eyes on Science By Heather
Mayer A new digital camera not only resembles a human eye, it
works like one too. Researchers mimicked the human eye’s
curvature to make light detectors with many advantages over
conventional flat chips. The sophisticated camera is a
combination of optoelectronics and a biologically inspired
design. “This kind of technology that we’ve explored with the
electronic eye, very naturally integrates with different body
parts and organs,” says researcher John Rogers. With a
conventional camera design, the detector surface has always been
flat, generating a flat image. But the eye-shaped camera allows
for advanced imaging. Up until now, nobody has been able to
develop a curved surface because manufacturers only create
photo-detector arrays for flat planar surfaces, not
hemispherical ones, says Rogers. Also on ScienCentral But Roger