The BioPOETS (Biomolecular Polymer Opto-Electronic Technology and Science) have announced the development of insect-like artificial compound eye technology. Surveillance cameras are a likely application of this new technique for enhancing field-of-view, or as the website explains:

This work offers a promising new paradigm for constructing miniaturized optical systems for omni-directional detection, wide field-of-view or fast motion detection.

Note that the website name is “biopoems.bekeley.edu”? Could this be a clear case of POETS in motion? Har har.

Slashdot provides some comic relief, as usual:

This will be like camera phones, but squared and then cubed.