AEgIS turns phone sensors into antimatter camera of unprecedented resolution(home.cern)
82 pointsby rbanffy14 days ago5 comments
  • aitchnyu10 days ago
    Smartphone tide lifting other boats: reverse cameras, heat rejecting Gorilla glass windows and now this.
    • dist-epoch10 days ago
      Same as gaming creating the GPU market which facilitated large neural networks.
      • rbanffy10 days ago
        Don't forget GPGPUs doing that for HPC (first), then crypto, then AI.
    • rbanffy10 days ago
      Tiny power-sipping embedded processors as well. And MEMS gyros and accelerometers.
    • m46310 days ago
      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.

    • az09mugen7 days ago
      You forgot infrared detection of TV remotes with camera
  • gaudat10 days ago
    I dig that PCB design. The panopticon (?) artwork and how the decoupling caps are lined up perfectly along the circumference.
    • cameron_b10 days ago
      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/...

      • rbanffy10 days ago
        At last a biblically accurate camera ;-)
      • dragonwriter9 days ago
        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.)
      • LunaeLumen9 days ago
        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."
  • sinuhe6910 days ago
    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-decay10 days ago
      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.

  • amelius10 days ago
    What happens when an antimatter camera comes into contact with normal matter?
    • tempodox10 days ago
      Bang!

      You will not want to be in the vicinity.

  • mohas10 days ago
    I can imagine seeing on my mobile: we have removed antimatter detection permission from unused apps
    • Mordisquitos10 days ago
      For a moment I was thinking now that's some astronomical feature creep from the Aegis Authenticator app that I use... https://getaegis.app/
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