World’s smallest camera sensor is the size of a sand grain

A specialist medical camera sensor, the size of a grain of sand, has won the Guinness World Record for being ‘the smallest commercially available image sensor’. California-based OmniVision Technologies made the OV6948 sensor that measures 0.575mm x 0.575mm X 0.232mm and has an image array capable of capturing 200 x 200 resolution video at up to 30 frames per second (fps).

The company has said that the camera sensor has been initially developed for small-outer-diameter medical endoscopes and can be designed into a wide range of applications, including dental, veterinary, IoT, industrial, wearable and forensic devices.