With the deployment of high-definition video sweeping the the entertainment, sports, and journalism business, Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute wanted to tackle a difficult problem: how do we get high-definition video from the perspective of, say, a sports car driver, jet pilot, or ski jumper?
To that end, the folks at Fraunhofer have developed a MicroHDTV high-definition capable mini camera, measuring just 4 by 4 by 8 centimeters and capable of capturing 1,920 by 1,080-pixel video at 60 frames per second – that’s not only a high enough resolution to accommodate 1080p resolution, but fast enough to get some slow motion footage out of crucial plays…or agonizing crashes.
