Gigapixel?

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Found this on another photo forum, thought i would share, sorry if its been posted before, or if in wrong section.

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releas...-cms092507.php
Carnegie Mellon system makes any digital camera take multibillion-pixel shots
Developers hope technology will enhance global understanding

PITTSBURGH — Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, in collaboration with scientists at NASA’s Ames Research Center, have built a low-cost robotic device that enables any digital camera to produce breathtaking gigapixel (billions of pixels) panoramas, called GigaPans.
http://www.gigapan.org/?window_heigh...ndow_width=857