Interesting and Entertaining

Unbelievable how fast things have changed, eh?

Duluth News Tribune | 09/09/2005 | Kodak comes from behind in digital photography: "Sasson, now 55, never imagined as a relatively new Kodak hire in 1975 all the dazzling ingredients that have, in just a few years, put digital cameras in 50 percent of American households: fiber optics, the Internet, personal computers, home printers.

His invention began with a 30-second conversation.

Sasson, who'd recently earned a master's in electrical engineering, said his supervisor, Gareth Lloyd, gave him a 'very broad assignment: He just said, 'Could we build a camera using solid-state imagers?' ' -- a new type of electronic sensor known as a charge coupled device, or CCD, that gathers optical information."