No, seriously.

It may have just sounded like I strung a bunch of random science-y words together and attempted to pass them off as a blog post, but I assure you, this product does indeed actually exist.

The TigerEye, you see, is a small form-factor camera that can–get this–capture “a full array of 128×128 independently triggered pixels per each frame up to 30 frames per second, allowing 16,384 3D range data points to be generated as 3D point cloud images or video streams.”

Basically, we’re talking about a camera that can take images of incredible quality, without motion distortion, in a camera that’s wholly self contained with no moving parts.  It can even be controlled remotely via Ethernet connection.

Just in case you were thinking about ordering one of these, I’d suggest you forget it, as they won’t actually TELL you how much any of these things actually cost.  No, if you want to know that you have to contact the company directly, and that means you can count on these weighing in at at least five figures, and likely more.  Even Hasselblad will tell you how much stuff costs.

But this may well be one of the biggest and most impressive new cameras to hit in some time, so it’s still worth talking about.