Inventor of the modern CMOS sensor, Eric Fossum on space travel and metaphysical photons

Eric Fossum and the team that invented the CMOS image sensor, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Eric Fossum, the celebrated inventor of the modern CMOS sensor and longtime friend of DPReview, recently appeared on the B&H Photography Podcast to reminisce on his work at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) on the invention of the CMOS image sensor in 1993, its surprising origins and his years-long attempts to convince US manufacturing companies to use it for con...