Gigavision sensor?

New wind is blowing through digital imaging land, hopefully it's a breeze which isn't too cold or too hot and has a nice smell

Today we have the CCD and the CMOS sensor, both work very well but surprisingly they are analogue devices.
The signal that from the sensor needs to make a trip around various components before you get a digital image.

Now someone at the TU Delft (go Dutchies!) has found a way to directly convert light into a digital signal and the great thing is, it use existing techniques and manufacturing processes use for memory chips, that means it's cheap!

I won't explain everything since you can all read it here link

So what do you think, can this be the new sensor for the 10s?

ps. seems the idea isn't new though but well still interesting.

Stonking technology!

Regards

Giga pixel sensors?

My brain hurts!

And how much memory will be needed to store those RAW files?

Yeah gigapixels, the only problem now is that they need 100 pixels to make one pixels although like someone in the comments there said, the more light there falls the faster they cycle so if you count the amount of cycle you could use ever pixels on is own to get a grey scale instead of using 100 for 1.
If they could do that, that would mean indeed gigiapixels sensors but also lower noise and higher dynamic range.
When no lights hits the pixels that one cycles 0 times so you get true black while others might cycle for a thousands times maybe.
Since everything is zero and ones upscaling that to an higher iso might work far better reducing noise that's introduce by various other components needed for CCD or CMOS sensors.

Also since the pixels are so small when you have a giga of them, that means that noise size is also small, since it's size is relative to the pixel so when you view a photo now at 100% you can view at 20% or so but have you ever notice a lot noise when viewing your photo at 20%?

*sighs* was 3:21am here when writing that comment