AEgIS turns phone sensors into antimatter camera of unprecedented resolution(home.cern)

82 pointsby rbanffyanno scorso18 comments

home.cern

AEgIS turns phone sensors into antimatter camera of unprecedented resolution

https://home.cern/news/news/experiments/aegis-transforms-smartphone-sensors-antimatter-camera-unprecedented

19 comments

aitchnyuanno scorso

Smartphone tide lifting other boats: reverse cameras, heat rejecting Gorilla glass windows and now this.

dist-epochanno scorso

Same as gaming creating the GPU market which facilitated large neural networks.

rbanffyanno scorso

Don't forget GPGPUs doing that for HPC (first), then crypto, then AI.

rbanffyanno scorso

Tiny power-sipping embedded processors as well. And MEMS gyros and accelerometers.

m463anno scorso

But are the images portrait or landscape?

EDIT: more seriously, smartphones have displaced a lot of important dedicated devices. Dedicated cameras are barely hanging on.

az09mugenanno scorso

You forgot infrared detection of TV remotes with camera

gaudatanno scorso

I dig that PCB design. The panopticon (?) artwork and how the decoupling caps are lined up perfectly along the circumference.

cameron_banno scorso

I found details about a talk[0][1] given by the hardware team, their names are on the blurry side of the picture in the top link - Authors: GUATIERI, Francesco (Università degli Studi di Trento); MUENSTER, Markus (Student); BERGHOLD, Michael (NEPOMUC / FRM2)

The name OPHANIM seems to be the combination of "Optical Photons and Antimatter Imager" as written in the silkscreen below the exposed ground.

And a crude take at the further inscription - Ex Saxis Homo Fecit Oculos Per Artem Ingeniumque Nunc Monstrum Usum Est ad Universum Resiscendum

"Man made eyes from stones through art and ingenuity. Now the monster has been used to re-emerge from the universe."

I haven't found a recording of the authors giving that talk or any significantly different materials, but the references to 'Ophanim' seem to be associated with Ezekiel's apocalyptic writings, and angels with many eyes, so that seems to fit.

[0] https://indico.frm2.tum.de/event/484/contributions/5093/ [1] https://indico.mlz-garching.de/event/484/contributions/5093/...

rbanffyanno scorso

At last a biblically accurate camera ;-)

InDubioProRubioanno scorso

While do !Fear

dragonwriteranno scorso

My Latin isn't great, but "ad universum" would be "to the universe" not "from the universe"; which would be "ab universum" (in the context of the rest of the sentence, "ad universum" is a bit odd; I would think "in universum" -- "into the universe" -- would be better.)

LunaeLumenanno scorso

Assuming resiscendum is a typo for resciscendum, a better translation of the second half is probably something like: "Now this wonder is useful to learn about everything."

sinuhe69anno scorso

Does anyone have more information about the design and the technical details of the projects? The article like any cooperate announcement is full of bull words but void of details.

orbital-decayanno scorso

Actual paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ads1176

>based on the Sony IMX219 (...) Its 1.12 μm by 1.12 μm pixels are 50 times smaller than that of Timepix3 and of size similar to that of nuclear emulsions grains.

I never expected the tiny pixel size to be an advantage anywhere, to be honest.

ameliusanno scorso

What happens when an antimatter camera comes into contact with normal matter?

tempodoxanno scorso

Bang!

You will not want to be in the vicinity.

mohasanno scorso

I can imagine seeing on my mobile: we have removed antimatter detection permission from unused apps

Mordisquitosanno scorso

For a moment I was thinking now that's some astronomical feature creep from the Aegis Authenticator app that I use... https://getaegis.app/

[deleted]anno scorso