Caltech's tiny high-resolution camera chip can turn your smartphone into a mobile 3D scanner

Wouldn’t it be great if we can just use phones to take a snapshot of every day objects, send it to a 3D printer, and within minutes a replica of the original object has been reproduced? This feat may soon be possible thanks to a new, tiny high-resolution 3D imager developed at Caltech...
Caltech's tiny high-resolution camera chip can turn your smartphone into a mobile 3D scanner