Kodak Chip May Eliminate Flash

Kodak has developed an advancement in digital imaging technology that may make flashes on digital cameras a thing of the past.  This new chip design will allow cameras to capture images with less light, and will also make pictures of moving objects less blurry.  The way current imaging chips work is with an arrangement of red, green, and blue pixels that each capture their respective color of light.  The colors are then combined together to form an image.  The new design adds "clear" pixels to the arrangement, which pick up a greater proportion of visible light.  This might sound complicated, but all you really need to know is that the new chips will be more sensitive to light, and therefore better at taking pictures when it’s dark.  We probably won’t see these new chips in any consumer devices until early next year at the earliest.  Judging from this picture here, Kodak will likely spend the next few months figuring out how to manufacturer their new chip at sizes smaller than a woman’s face.