Posted on 11/08/2009 7:19:51 PM PST by neverdem
He has.
I got that impression. I don't have a cell phone, so I have no first hand experience other than taking on someone else's cell phones.
The wireless and audio features of what makes a cell phone a cell phone don't have much to do with this, or am I missing something?
I had the impression that the wireless ability can transmit the images. Maybe _Jim could clarify any misconceptions.
Ditto :)
Ever hear of a "simple" microscope? The first microscope ever invented used a polished glass bead as the lens and produced sharp images at several hundred magnifications, although the image was dim due to a small aperature. The sample to be viewed had to nearly touch the lens, due to the short focal length. Today it would be a simple matter to install such a spheric lens above the sensor of a cell phone. A glass microsocpe slide could be laid directly onto the cell phone if the lens was recessed just a bit.
They're not actually looking at images of the cellsThe result, AFAIAC is an image; reiterating, capturing the 'data' off the 2-D array results in 'an image'; imagery. Not to be construed with anything else, being very generic in application here since I know sqat about the size or nature of what they're trying to capture or characterize. I would spend more time on the subject, but more pressing matters present themselves.
I had the impression that the wireless ability can transmit the images.That's my take also; they got themselves a 'twofer' with this creation!
"The result, AFAIAC is an image; reiterating, capturing the 'data' off the 2-D array results in 'an image'; imagery.
The key element you left out is that I said the pic's a hologram. A hologram is a holographic image, but those images contain no recognizable rendering of blood cells discernable with the unaided eye, or with a microscope for that matter. They look like blank images to the unaided eye. Those holograms can be mathematically scaled up, then converted to magnified images of the cells.
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