My NEXT Camera #2

Ok, so molecular imaging is coming far in news this week.
Prediction: Digital camera's are reaching a point of ultrahigh resolution - the finale would be the ability to image the location and movement of every molecule in a 3D system. The issue is with the scanning time involved


Anyway, this is not a new idea (even I've made mention to it in the past). But it has some attention in the news.
Published by Wired News, there is a new contender for fastest camera. With this new design "Light itself moves just a fraction of a centimeter in that time."

It would appear the road trip to California has a little bit of ammunition: at UCLA, Keisuke Goda focused on this idea of serial time-encoded amplified microscopy (STEAM).

Anyway, interesting stuff.

My NEXT Camera #1

Ok, so I would like to outline a feature that should exist in the camera of tomorrow. I numbered the tag in the title because I plan on discussing this more as time goes on.

Ok, so a tool I use sometimes is a BIC lighter. Aside from it's obvious function, it is also a very perfect scale anemometer with a really good feedback.
So you can measure tiny air currents.

Ideally I can observe that from a single position. With a 200MP plus system, and developed intelligence systems could probably calculate changes in air flow. Dust particles. On that note a camera that could scan the movement patterns of the dust in a projector beam. I think this is a feature that will be available in the not too distant future.

One thing you might be able to do is plane a 3D cubic grid over the image and move a flame around to see how the wind reacts.
As supercomputing abilities shrink to the size of a camera this will be a standard feature.

3D holographic anemometers that work from scanning ONLY photon movement from a single perspective.