Just when consumers thought cameras couldn’t get any smaller, they can, according to researchers at Osaka University in Japan. Osaka University scientists and electronics manufacturer Funai Electric Co. Ltd. have developed a prototype of an ultra-thin 3-D camera called Thin Observation Module by Bound Optics (TOMBO). The compound eye camera was presented at international photonics conference CLEO/QELS 2007 in May. TOMBO can produce a multiple-image photo similar to the way insects see three-dimensionally. Read the whole article here