What's the breakthrough? My GoPro can take 120 photos per second.
Futhermore, what happens if you point this at a device that can affect each pixel on the phone's image sensor 20 times a second? Is all the information preserved? If so, this is an interesting hardware hack. If not, this is an interesting shell game. But I don't see how it's a scientific breakthrough.
(It sure is good for sales when TechCrunch prints your press release verbatim, though!)
A GoPro can do 720p (1 megapixel) at 120 FPS; this app can do 8 MP at 20 FPS. Also, it's using JPEG instead of a video codec so when you want to pick out a single frame it's already in the format you want. Likewise there are no motion artifacts because it doesn't use a video codec, so every frame should be equal quality.
I agree that this is likely not a "scientific breakthrough". Every time I write some really cool software, I don't claim a new scientific breakthrough. I guess I could, but I'm pretty sure my coworkers would grow tired of my antics. Perhaps some graduates with CS degrees actually believe they are scientists.
Futhermore, what happens if you point this at a device that can affect each pixel on the phone's image sensor 20 times a second? Is all the information preserved? If so, this is an interesting hardware hack. If not, this is an interesting shell game. But I don't see how it's a scientific breakthrough.
(It sure is good for sales when TechCrunch prints your press release verbatim, though!)