Video Cameras

In order to observe specific behaviors, scientists will often rig wild animals up with tiny cameras or other "bio-logging" devices. A new technology could help these tools gather more data, by only fully powering up when needed.

Are stethoscopes on their way to becoming obsolete? It's possible, as scientists from Utah State University have developed a no-contact method of measuring a person's heartbeat utilizing a video camera and custom software.

Scientists in Hawaii have they been putting cameras on sharks to see what they get up to, plus they've been slipping them ingestible sensors, to monitor their dietary habits. The data that they've gathered could help protect shark populations, and the overall health of the ocean.

The FDA has now approved a device for use after an incomplete procedure that is minimally invasive and can achieve similar imaging results to a colonoscopy. PillCam Colon is a pill-sized camera that is swallowed and passes through a patient's gastrointestinal tract.

Norwegian scientists are developing a capsule that they say will be able to transmit live HD video from within a patient's digestive tract.

UrtheCast is launching a streaming video platform of planet Earth, that will originate on the International Space Station.

Medigus has developed the world's smallest video camera at just 0.039-inches in diameter.

German engineers have developed a low-cost disposable endoscopic camera that is the size of a coarse grain of salt.

A father and son have obtained video footage of outer space, by attaching a video camera to a weather balloon.