Mar 02
Nissan Rear-view Mirror Can Switch to Rear Camera View: Who’s the Nearest of Them All?
Posted in: Today's ChiliNissan just made the rear-view mirror twice as useful. Its Smart mirror neatly hides an LCD monitor, which can display live video from a camera mounted at the rear of a vehicle at the flick of a switch.
The 4:1 monitor and 1.3mp camera should come in handy not just when your cargo or passengers are blocking your view, but also when your rear window gets dusty, wet or fogged up.
I think it’s a great idea, but as other folks have pointed out, it might be better if the switch is installed somewhere that’s closer to the driver. Nissan will offer the Smart rear-view mirror starting this Spring in Japan and in the rest of the world starting next year.
The world of digital photography in smartphones have progressed a whole lot, and here is a possible improvement in the realm of digital cameras in smartphones. Corephotonics could very well open up the door to a dual lens smartphone camera in the future, where they have already begun to pitch a dual-lens concept to smartphone manufacturers. Corephotonics will make use of a couple of lenses that have two different focal lengths. One of these lens happens to be wide-angle, while the other would stand at 3x zoom. This translates to the ability to switch lenses in order to magnify the more distant subjects without having to resort to digital zoom.
