The Zone

Another day, another breakthrough in technology! Sharp has announced its thinnest CMOS imaging sensor yet, and the RJ63SC100 seems mighty thin and small for what it can deliver. We're not sure how Sharp actually managed to squeeze 5 Million pixels in a size that small, but there are slight problems in actually using it. Apparently a S/N ratio of 1.6 is used to counter the traditional problem of a small sensor with crammed internals, but expect mobile phones to have this sensor to be on the high side of price - it costs 96 US dollars!