THE GIGAPIXEL CAMERA IS BORN. “Don’t hold your breath for a consumer version. The camera is housed in a bulky box that needs its own power supply to operate. Each gigapixel photo takes up nearly 3 GB of memory, on par with a 2-hour HD movie. But gigapixel tech does have promise for science, ranging from tracking microscopic cellular activity across an entire organism to telescopic star activity in the night sky. Perhaps even CSI’s fancy zoom and enhance features will become a reality.”