"University of Toronto, a world-leading research university, announces a breakthrough development in video camera design. The Omni-focus Video Camera, based on an entirely new distance-mapping principle, delivers automatic real-time focus of both near and far field images, simultaneously, in high resolution. This unprecedented capability can be broadly applied in industry, including manufacturing, medicine, defense, security -- and for the consumer market."
Read more about the Omni-Focus camera @ ScienceDaily. Here is a sample picture of two objects that were 1.2 meters apart and still in focus:
