AEgIS turns phone sensors into antimatter camera of unprecedented resolution
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·April 3, 2025aitchnyu
rbanffy
Tiny power-sipping embedded processors as well. And MEMS gyros and accelerometers.
m463
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.
dist-epoch
Same as gaming creating the GPU market which facilitated large neural networks.
rbanffy
Don't forget GPGPUs doing that for HPC (first), then crypto, then AI.
gaudat
I dig that PCB design. The panopticon (?) artwork and how the decoupling caps are lined up perfectly along the circumference.
cameron_b
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/...
dragonwriter
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.)
LunaeLumen
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."
sinuhe69
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-decay
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.
amelius
What happens when an antimatter camera comes into contact with normal matter?
tempodox
Bang!
You will not want to be in the vicinity.
mohas
I can imagine seeing on my mobile: we have removed antimatter detection permission from unused apps
Mordisquitos
For a moment I was thinking now that's some astronomical feature creep from the Aegis Authenticator app that I use... https://getaegis.app/
null
Smartphone tide lifting other boats: reverse cameras, heat rejecting Gorilla glass windows and now this.