Tired of blurry photos caused by poor focusing? Then you may be in interested in wavefront coding, a recent military technology which may end up in camera-phones:

“Using wavefront coding, the system encodes the image so it always looks the same without losing any information.

Wavefront coding was originally proposed by Dr Edward Dowski of the University of Colorado for microscopy.

“Our system means that an image never goes out of focus; so if I want to take a picture of my nose with a tree in the distance, I can get them focused at the same time,” explained Dr Harvey.”

Website: BBC - Lens does away with blurry snaps