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Pelican Imaging intends to place 25 micro-cameras in cellphones
Pelican Imaging has come up with a totally new camera design meant for cellphones. Instead of increasing the megapixel to give you a better image like what companies have been doing nowadays, Pelican Imaging is going in a different direction instead. They have come up with a camera module that uses 25 micro-cameras instead of a single camera lens – it works by capturing multiple images and with the use of post-processing software, these separate images can be assembled together to create one high-quality photo. Sounds interesting? You bet, though I have a feeling it’s not going to be as fast as regular cameras unless you can choose to do the processing later and continue to take photos first. With so many lens on one module, it might be a bit pricey too, but let’s wait until we see it in action before we jump to conclusions. Pelican Imaging is planning to license the technology to phone manufacturers, though we haven’t got an exact date to when we’ll start seeing it in our phones.
The title says it all, and that was pretty quick. It was only yesterday when the iOS 5 was announced and the beta was made available to developers but yet wasting little to no time, hackers MuscleNerd and Co have managed to jailbreak iOS 5 on the iPod touch fourth generation. The exploit they used was the limera1n jailbreak which means that iOS 5 presented the hackers with little surprises when it came to closing the loop holes that would make the limera1n exploit work.
Naturally the iOS 5 is currently in beta which means there are probably still plenty of holes to be exploited and we can only assume that in the final release iOS 5 would-be hackers will have a harder time trying to jailbreak it. However this is good news for those on jailbroken devices who were worried that they might be in for a rather long wait when it comes to getting the jailbroken version if iOS 5 on their devices.
Anyone who has owned an iOS device knows that upon out of the box, the first thing they see is their device asking them to tether it to their computer in order to set up synch with iTunes. Not necessarily a bad thing but what if the person’s computer was not well equipped enough to run iTunes properly or what if they didn’t know what all these synching meant?
Tabbed browsing isn’t new. In fact there are browser apps already available for iOS that features tabbed browsing, but either way we are happy that Apple has decided to sit up and take notice of what users want in their browsers and finally implemented tabbed browsing in their native iOS browser app, Safari.