Engineers Model Camera After An Insect’s Eyes

Engineers have succeeded at building a camera that is only two millimeters in length. The team of engineers presented their new invention at a technical trade fair in Las Vegas. The engineering team has named the tiny camera concept Facet Vision. Although this particular team of engineers must be quite smart and knowledgeable, the fact is, the team could not have accomplished this feat of modern technology without using the eyes of insects as a model.

Similar to the eyes of an insect, the camera’s lens is tiny and it is partitioned into one hundred and thirty five tiny facets. The device, also much like a bug, is composed of many minute and uniform lenses which are all located closely together. Each lense only takes a small section of a big picture, eventually all of the lenses integrate the tiny images into one complete picture, and this process is in accordance with an insect’s visual processing and anatomy. I never would have guessed that such a simple creature could be so complicated.

Are you aware of any other forms of technology that had been modeled after insect anatomy or physiology?