Roland Piquepaille at ZDNet’s Emerging Technology Blog writes, “Nanotechnologists at the University of Southern California (USC) are building a device dubbed the Einstein Emitter which will deliver a single photon produced by a single electron. At the same time, other researchers at the University of Texas/Austin are developing the detector for this single photon. Together, they are assembling the first real-world photon computer system. These photon machines will first be used in cryptographic devices. But later, these photonic systems might lead to smaller and faster general purpose computers…”
While this doesn’t appear to have any immediate applications for conventional photography, I’m really curious as to what, if any, there could be.