Channel: Curious Droid

Category: Science & Technology

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Description: Claim your SPECIAL OFFER for MagellanTV here: try.magellantv.com/curiousdroid. Buy one annual membership and get another FREE Start TODAY so you can watch Disasters in Space: End of Genesis, about some of the things that NASA did that didn't go according to plan and the rest of MagellanTV’s science collection: magellantv.com/series/disasters-in-space/the-end-of-genesis Some might think that NASA only makes things for space but there area great deal of things that it develops that end up being used here on earth far more often. 1 in every 1000 patents in the US is awarded someone working for NASA so it shouldn't come as a surprise to find out one of the most widely used devices in your smartphone, tablet and laptop, the digital camera was developed by NASA, this is the story of one of their mostly widely used inventions, the CMOS image sensor. This video is sponsored by MagellanTV : try.magellantv.com/curiousdroid. Written, researched and presented by Paul Shillito Images and footage : NASA, Photobit, Fairchild, Bell Labs, Olympus, specinstcameras.com, Monty Python Life of Brian. A big thank you also goes to all our Patreons too :-) Eριχθόνιος JL Abrakodabra Kobra / 25% Ai Alipasha Sadri Alistair Brown Andrew Gaess Andrew SMITH Brian Kelly Cameron Elliot Carl Soderstrom Charles Thacker ChasingSol Collin Copfer Dom Riccobene Dragoncorps Etienne Dechamps Florian Muller George Bishop II Glenn Dickinson Henning Bitsch inunotaisho james t early Jesse Postier Jim Early Johan Rombaut john edwards Jonathan Merage Jonathan Travers Ken Schwarz L D László Antal Lawrence Brennan Leifur Thor Lorne Diebel oldGhostbear Paul Gorlinsky Pyloric SHAMIR stefan hufenbach Steve J - LakeCountySpacePort Tawn Kramer Tim Alberstein Tomasz Leszczyński Vincent Will Lowe Music from the Youtube Library Drifting at 432hz by Unicorn Heads Heaven and Hell by Jeremy Blake