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What do you get if you mix a camera with a watch? You get this - the world's first wrist camera watch. |
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It can tell the time just like any other watch, but it can also take photographs using new digital technology. |
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The watch is smaller than a roll of film, and it doesn't need any film at all. |
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So how does the watch take a photograph? Well, it's all down to a very clever microchip inside. The chip contains lots of little squares, commonly known as pixels. |
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Pixels act a bit like bottles which fill up with light. |
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The light enters through this tiny lens. |
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Imagine that this milk represents the light going into the pixel. |
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Just a tiny drop... |
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...and you can see that there's not much change. |
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But if we put a lot of milk (light) in, it's much lighter and much brighter. |
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The same process happens across loads and loads of tiny pixels until eventually, a picture is created. |
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Once you've captured your image, you can send it to your computer to print
out. It does this using an invisible ray of light called infra red. |
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The exchange between the camera and the computer works a bit like a game of battleships. |
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Fearne's board represents the wrist camera and its final image. |
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And Kate's board represents the computer. If Fearne tells Kate information about every square, she'll be able to recreate the image without seeing it. |
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And eventually... Eureka! |
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