A high-tech robotic device allows user to explore images in excruciating detail in a thousand tiny snapshots.
The tech works with "GigaPan" rigs -- three different high-tech robotic camera mounts that attach to most digital cameras and microscopes. The robot is named "GigaPan," "giga-" for the billion or more pixels it can produce. It all starts with one large photograph. The robotic camera snaps a series of tiny high-res images as it zooms in on different sections of the large photo. Then it puts all of the tiny sections back together.
Scientists can to zoom in and out and explore tiny sections in incredible detail, from insect hairs to an archaeological dig site to a crater on Mars.
