Don't point your phone camera at the sun

Tom GerkenTech reporter Pointing your phone at the eclipse can be terrible news for your device's camera. "Point an unfiltered lens at the sun, and you risk burning out the sensor, just as looking with the naked eye risks your vision," says Uswitch's Jez Samuel. "A phone camera lens focuses sunlight into an intense point on the sensor behind it, and enough unfiltered exposure will kill pixels permanently." And it's not just him. Even Nasa says don't do it, external. Funnily e