DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF by Maryanne Kane, Journalist
DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF
By Journalists Edward Kane & Maryanne Kane
WORLD'S LARGEST DIGITAL CAMERA CAN PHOTOGRAPH A GOLF BALL 15 MILES AWAY
- The new Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) camera will help reveal the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy. Here's what we know:
- It's a 3,250 megapixel camera, built over the past 20 years by scientists and engineers at Stanford University
- It's extraordinary technology to capture images from space or a detailed look at a golf ball, 15 miles away
- It weighs 6,600 pounds
- Front lens measures more than 5-feet
- Now complete, it will sit in the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, on a nearly 9,000-foot mountaintop
- It will produce a stunning and informative map of the night sky
- Contains 200 sensors for high resolution
- Its images of billions of stars could help unlock the secrets of the universe
- Main job: to map locations and the brightness of a huge selection of objects, including 37 billion celestial objects.
YOUR NEXT APPLE PRODUCT COULD BE A HOME ROBOT
- Apple is exploring a big, new business line - home robots. Here are a few key facts:
- Apple is developing 2 home robots
- One is mobile and can follow users around the house
- The other is a robot with a smart display
- Apple sees home robots as a potentially big business line for the company as it looks for its "next big thing"
- The smart display robot would sit on a tabletop and rotate its smart display like a human head, presumably to always be in position to be read by the nearby user
- It would also contain a feature to zoom in on a person during a multi-person videocall
- This new product line follows Apple's decision to abandon its electric, self-driving car project that it invested ten years into
- Experts say the Safety OS to autonomously drive the Apple car could be repurposed for the new home robots.
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