Virtual windows through high-res camera

And here you thought your new video camera was top of the line.
This baby, developed by Imaging Solutions Group for the Navy and NASA is going to have 8.3 megapixels and 24-bit color at 30fps, which is about four times the resolution of the best HDTV system out there today. It's going to be used with a 9.2 megapixel display as a real-time virtual window since the resolution approaches human visual acuity. This time the military isn't keeping all of its best toys; there are entertainment applications planned. Of course before that day comes, they're going to need to work on compression, since you'd need a 750 megabyte per second connection to transmit all the data (read: your cable modem just isn't going to cut it). The camera is probably going to cost about
$40,000 when it comes out in six to nine months, so start saving up now.