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Researchers combine mobile phone technology and microscopy

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed an optical accessory that turns an ordinary camera phone into a high-resolution microscope. The device is accurate to one hundredth of a millimetre. Among those who will ...

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Tiny Train Model May be World's Smallest (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- David Smith, who has been building model railroads since 1965, has always had a preference for the smaller scale train models. His most recent project is a five-car train that runs through ...

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (13) | comments 3 weblog




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An eye for the tsetse fly

(PhysOrg.com) -- Geoffrey M. Attardo was one of those little boys who made pets of the spiders outside his bedroom window, feeding them and watching as they spun intricate webs. Age has not diminished his ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Mask-bot: A robot with a human face

Robotics researchers in Munich, Germany, have joined forces with Japanese scientists to develop an ingenious technical solution that gives robots a human face. By using a projector to beam the 3D image of ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Nov 07, 2011 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Review: Can a smartphone camera do it all?

If you're anything like me, your cellphone and its built-in camera is always on you, while your digital camera gathers dust at home.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Aug 10, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (10) | comments 9

Camera on Curiosity's arm will magnify clues in rocks

NASA's next Mars rover, Curiosity, will wield an arm-mounted magnifying camera similar to one on the Mars Rover Opportunity, which promptly demonstrated its importance for reading environmental history from ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 17, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Focusing on aerosols through the macro lens

The devil is in the details, the very small details, when it comes to global climate models, and those details are now easier to see, thanks to climate change researchers from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 01, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Sony introduces new cameras powered by Translucent Mirror Technology

Sony today introduced two new α cameras (models SLT-A55V and SLT-A33) that adopt its newly-developed Translucent Mirror Technology, which achieves the highest-level of auto focus speed for both still ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Aug 25, 2010 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Taking the guesswork out of soil classification

A University of Missouri doctoral student has developed a technique that uses digital imaging of soil samples to take some of the guesswork out of wetland identification.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 07, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Panasonic Introduces New LUMIX DMC-GF1 Digital Camera

Panasonic today announced that it has introduced its newest addition to its LUMIX G Micro System line-up of advanced digital interchangeable lens system cameras based on the Micro Four Thirds system standard. ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A Better View for Surgeons During Minimally Invasive Surgeries

A multidisciplinary team of researchers at the UC San Diego division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) is nearing completion of their first prototype of ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

New research field promises radical advances in optical technologies

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new research field called transformation optics may usher in a host of radical advances including a cloak of invisibility and ultra-powerful microscopes and computers by harnessing nanotechnology ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 16, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (53) | comments 0


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