News tagged with retinal scanners

Two Retinal Imaging Display Devices at Prototype Stage

(PhysOrg.com) -- NEC and Brother are both developing wearable prototype devices that use Retinal Imaging Display (RID) technology to project images directly on the wearer's retina. NEC's gadget is designed ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (29) | comments 9 weblog




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Computing the best high-resolution 3-D tissue images

Real-time, 3-D microscopic tissue imaging could be a revolution for medical fields such as cancer diagnosis, minimally invasive surgery and ophthalmology. University of Illinois researchers have developed ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Do menu 'sweet spots' really exist? Study says 'no', but finds 'sour spots'

When you sit down to read a restaurant menu, do you read it like a book? Or do your eyes flit from place to place to find the most enticing dish?

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

EyeLock brings biometric security to your websites

(PhysOrg.com) -- Biometric security is always a field of interest for those people who need to keep your data secure. Currently, it is used in a wide variety of high security applications, mostly by large ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created May 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3 | with audio podcast weblog

Finding our color center

The colorful Australian film Strictly Ballroom has been used in a breakthrough scientific experiment to locate the colour processing center in the human brain.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Nov 01, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Wright State researchers developing skeletal scans to recognize terrorists

The Wright State Research Institute is developing a ground-breaking system that would scan the skeletal structures of people at airports, sports stadiums, theme parks and other public places that could be vulnerable to terrorist ...

Technology / Engineering

created Aug 19, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (6) | comments 9

High-resolution imaging expands vision research of live birds of prey

Bird observatories all over the world may benefit from a newly designed high-resolution imaging system used to study the retinal structure of live birds of prey. In a recently published Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Sc ...

Biology / Other

created Jul 21, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Making light work: The 50-year odyssey of the laser

Fifty years ago next Sunday, a 32-year-old engineer called Theodore Maiman switched on a gadget at Hughes Research Laboratories in California, and watched as pulses of light sprang from a pink ruby crystal.

Physics / General Physics

created May 12, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 2

Sight Recovery After Blindness Offers New Insights on Brain Reorganization

Studies of the brains of blind persons whose sight was partially restored later in life have produced a compelling example of the brain's ability to adapt to new circumstances and rewire and reconfigure itself.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created May 16, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Link identified between Alzheimer's disease and glaucoma

UK scientists have shown for the first time that key proteins involved in Alzheimer's disease are also implicated in glaucoma, the major cause of irreversible blindness worldwide. Research carried out at the UCL Institute ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Aug 06, 2007 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Review: Biometrics Technologies Measure Up (Part 2/3)

(Part 2/3) (Part 1) Biometrics technologies have come a long way from a slow start in the early 80s. Now they can be found almost anywhere and soon, almost everywhere. ...

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created Nov 19, 2005 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (10) | comments 0 feature


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