Interesting stuff Allan.
I like one of their comments !
"Ubiquitous gigapixel cameras may transform the central challenge of photography from the question of where to point the camera to that of how to mine the data."
Sorry H. but according to these tech heads you're out of a job !
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal...ture11150.html
More info including camera assembly timelapse
http://www.disp.duke.edu/projects/AWARE/index.ptml
Camera Specs
http://disp.duke.edu/projects/mosaic/cam001.html
Info on Aware2
http://disp.duke.edu/projects/AWARE/evolution.ptml
Paper here on the sphere design
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/...-gigapixel.pdf