DOF problem solved
 

Well, not really, but maybe soon :)


Apple's all-seeing screen
We could soon see a new kind of display screen from computer maker Apple – one that simultaneously takes pictures while showing images.

The clever idea is to insert thousands of microscopic image sensors in-between the liquid crystal display cells in the screen. Each sensor captures its own small image, but software stitches these together to create a single, larger picture.

A large LCD screen filled with image sensors would be ideal for videoconferencing, Apple suggests, as participants would always appear to look straight into the "camera". The technique could also add a camera function to a cellphone or PDA without wasting space, and light from the screen should help illuminate a subject.

The more sensors there are, the wider and clearer the image. Sketches accompanying the company's patent show as many sensors as liquid crystal cells in a screen. If some of the sensors have different focal lengths, switching between them would make the screen behave like a zoom lens.

http://www.newscientist.com/article....ine-news_rss20

The paranoids are going to go crazy (pardon the pun) over this one.

That sounds great! Thanks for posting that.

I'm sure it's going to be cheap, too.

Some claims might be further off than suggested!

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18324662.100.html