http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/ Engadget Comments for Nobel Prize in Physics shared by CCD inventors, fiber optics pioneer http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/Oct 6th 2009 2:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/Oct 6th 2009 3:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/Oct 6th 2009 2:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/Oct 6th 2009 2:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/Oct 6th 2009 4:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/Oct 6th 2009 2:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/Oct 6th 2009 2:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/Oct 6th 2009 2:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/Oct 6th 2009 2:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/Oct 6th 2009 2:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/
*facepalm*]]>Oct 6th 2009 2:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/as for ccd.. surgeons use that technology to take digital pictures of your body to find cancerous areas.]]>Oct 6th 2009 2:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/
Talk about fail logic. Should people be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for saving a kitten from a tree? LOL

"'CCD' refers to the way that the image signal is read out from the chip. Under the control of an external circuit, each capacitor can transfer its electric charge to one or another of its neighbors. CCDs are used in digital photography, digital photogrammetry, astronomy (particularly in photometry), sensors, electron microscopy, medical fluoroscopy, optical and UV spectroscopy, and high speed techniques such as lucky imaging."

"CCDs containing grids of pixels are used in digital cameras, optical scanners and video cameras as light-sensing devices. They commonly respond to 70% of the incident light (meaning a quantum efficiency of about 70%) making them far more efficient than photographic film, which captures only about 2% of the incident light.

Most common types of CCDs are sensitive to near-infrared light, which allows infrared photography, night-vision devices, and zero lux (or near zero lux) video-recording/photography. For normal silicon based detectors the sensitivity is limited to 1.1μm. One other consequence of their sensitivity to infrared is that infrared from remote controls will often appear on CCD-based digital cameras or camcorders if they don't have infrared blockers."

Useless?]]>Oct 6th 2009 2:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/
you need to disable your sarcasm filter]]>Oct 6th 2009 4:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/Oct 6th 2009 2:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/Oct 6th 2009 3:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/
K's comment and mine were replies to an idiot who posted first saying "What does this have to do with gadgets. first"]]>Oct 6th 2009 4:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/Oct 6th 2009 2:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/Oct 6th 2009 2:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/
/shudder]]>Oct 6th 2009 3:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/Because fundamental physic is running into a wall, for several years (decades ?) now so to keep this Nobel Prize a little interesting they are looking back to old discoveries. It sure didn t take 50 years for Marie Curie or Einstein to get it.
Also since theoretical physic is stalling they tend to shift the focus and reward applied physic.
Those guys are worthy of the Prize, but the question is would they have had it if they had to compete with guys
like Niels Bohr or W. Heisenberg ? ]]>Oct 6th 2009 4:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/Oct 6th 2009 4:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/
I now work for a CMOS imager company who are working hard on replacing CCDs.]]>Oct 6th 2009 4:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/
Here's a very recent picture of the Chinese legend: http://l.yimg.com/fe/p/news/singtao/20091008/15cq4na013oi5g-i0.jpg]]>Oct 11th 2009 4:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/
www.justin-is-great.mybrute.com can u beat me and my wolf?]]>Oct 6th 2009 4:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/Oct 6th 2009 4:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/Oct 6th 2009 4:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/Oct 6th 2009 4:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/
Are you attending the FIO conference tomorrow?]]>Oct 11th 2009 5:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/Oct 6th 2009 4:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/Oct 6th 2009 6:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/Oct 6th 2009 6:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/Oct 6th 2009 7:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/
Do chics dig Nobel winners?]]>Oct 6th 2009 8:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/Oct 6th 2009 9:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio/...but he is dead...
...so this is the next best thing...
...i don't think he is bitter though...
...Old Albo and i happen to agree on this one...]]>Oct 6th 2009 9:00PM