http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3643964.stm
"Ours is lighter and means you could have two lenses instead of five, and
there are no focus knobs which wear out and add to the weight," said Dr
Harvey.
The lens has a specially shaped and coated surface, but uses industry
standard algorithms to encode and decode the image information.
The lens is covered with a microscale coating, about the thickness of a
human hair, of germanium, a semi-conducting material commonly used in
transistors and photodetectors.
"We can decode the information with a computer. So instead of £1,000s for
lenses, it is £1 for a computer processor."
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