The streaming of real-time information across your field of vision is a step closer to reality with the development of a prototype contact lens that could potentially provide the wearer with hands-free information updates.
Engineering
Nov 21, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- By taking advantage of the unique optical properties of nanoscale materials, researchers have designed a lens made of nanowires that can reconfigure its imaging properties without any electronic or mechanical ...
More affordable and efficient solar cells, batteries and lighting systems could result from a new X-ray lens that will let scientists study the nanoscale in greater detail than ever before.
Optics & Photonics
Aug 16, 2011
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Sony today unveiled two new Cyber-shot digital still cameras (models DSC-TX9 and DSC-WX5) that are the world's smallest 3D cameras, capturing 3D images with a single lens system using a sweeping motion.
Consumer & Gadgets
Jul 8, 2010
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Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have demonstrated an ion trap with a built-in optical fiber that collects light emitted by single ions (electrically charged atoms), allowing quantum information ...
Quantum Physics
Jul 8, 2010
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Unmanned aerial vehicles UAVs deployed on landscape analysis missions carry optical measuring equipment that is required to operate free of chromatic aberration. Researchers have now designed an all-reflective zoom objective ...
Optics & Photonics
Jan 18, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Duke University engineers have created a new generation of lens that could greatly improve the capabilities of telecommunications or radar systems to provide a wide field of view and greater detail.
Condensed Matter
Dec 20, 2009
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Sony today announced the development of a single lens 3D camera technology capable of recording natural and smooth 3D images of even fast-moving subject matter such as sports, at 240fps (frames per second).
Engineering
Oct 1, 2009
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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. The new LUMIX ...
Consumer & Gadgets
Sep 2, 2009
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Distorted cell-phone photos and big, clunky telephoto lenses could be things of the past. UW-Madison Electrical and Computer Engineering Associate Professor Zhenqiang (Jack) Ma and colleagues have developed ...
General Physics
Jan 13, 2009
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