If you like recording slow motion videos with your smartphone,Watch Fast & Furious 7 Online you're going to love what's coming in the future.
While smartphones today can record impressive slow motion videos at 120 or 240 frames per second (fps), Sony has developed a new CMOS image sensor for phones that can record slow motion at 960 fps.
SEE ALSO: Slow motion stunts with a 100mph RC car look surprisingly epicWith 960 fps capture, motion will be slowed even more so you can reallysee every drop of water burst from a balloon or every chunk of watermelon explode when you wrap too many rubber bands around it.
According to Nikkei Technology, Sony was able to create such high frame-rate capture by sandwiching a DRAM layer between "the image sensing part and the logic circuit part" to create a system that can temporarily store more images at once before compiling them into a slow motion video.
This is the same kind of technology solution that enables 960 fps slow-mo in Sony's RX100 V point-and-shoot and its RX10 II.
You can see an example of what 960 fps slow motion looks like in the video below, taken with the RX100 V:
Though Sony says the new image sensor is built for smartphone cameras, no phone makers have announced any devices with it (yet). But given how well-regarded Sony's mobile image sensors are (they're in everything from iPhones to Androids), it should only be a matter of time before we see new phones support 960 fps slow motion.
The timing of the announcement is also interesting since Mobile World Congress is just a few days away. Perhaps there will be at least one phone maker who'll be brave enough to be firstto the ultra slow-mo party.
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