At the MWC 2016, Xiaomi took wraps off its anticipated flagship smartphone - the Mi 5 - that comes powered with many a firsts for the China-based manufacturer. The 5.15-inch Android Marshmallow phone has at its core the newest Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 chipset that is touted to make the phone 'insanely fast'. With its top-of-the-line variant featuring 4 GB of RAM and 128 GB of internal storage, the Mi 5 features a 16 megapixel rear camera coupled with a 4 megapixel front camera. As Hugo Barra reveals, it took Xiaomi about 2 years to design the Mi 5 that comes with a 3D ceramic body that feels like marble. The phone, available in Black, White, and Gold colour choices, is expected to soon make its India debut. Here's the Mi 4 successor in photos.
A team led by an Indian-origin professor at Columbia University has created a novel sheet camera that can be wrapped around everyday objects to capture images that cannot be taken with one or more conventional cameras. "Cameras today capture the world from essentially a single point in space. While the camera industry has made remarkable progress in shrinking the camera to a tiny device with ever increasing imaging quality, we are exploring a radically different approach to imaging," said Shree K Nayar, computer science professor at Columbia University. "We believe there are numerous applications for cameras that are large in format but very thin and highly flexible," added Nayar who graduated from the Birla Institute of Technology, Ranchi, in 1984. Nayar's team designed and fabricated a flexible lens array that adapts its optical properties when the sheet camera is bent. This optical adaptation enables the device to produce high quality images over a wide ...