The guys from Happy Shooting, Boris Nienke and Chris Marquardt, are reporting from the Photokina in Cologne. They have made an interview with Steven Sasson. He built the first Digital Camera, a toaster sized monster with 0.01 Megapixel and a cassette tape as data storage.
You can find a high quality video here or look at this small version:
Before I even thought about making my own podcast, I had a piece about Sasson in the Tips from the Top Floor show.
Tags: first digital camera
WOW, the CCD was a really amazing innovation, CCDs and new sensors like CMOS are widely used by the science community, they are used in high sensitivity analytical instruments to collect precise data.