News articles tagged with 'lens'
Terminator-style info-vision takes step towards reality
— 22 Nov 2011 16:41 | TechnologyThe 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…
Cameras out of the salt shaker
— 14 Mar 2011 20:30 | TechnologyEndoscopy has gone through amazing advancements in recent years. Microcameras on the tip of endoscopes supply images from the inside of the human body in ever higher resolution, which…
A new high-resolution method for imaging below the skin using a liquid lens
— 20 Feb 2011 16:33 | HealthUniversity of Rochester optics professor Jannick Rolland has developed an optical technology that provides unprecedented images under the skin's surface. The aim of the technology is…
GRIN plasmonics
— 25 Jan 2011 18:32 | TechnologyThey said it could be done and now they've done it. What's more, they did it with a GRIN. A team of researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National…
Nanoworld in colour
— 21 Jan 2011 19:32 | TechnologyLights off - projector on. Lecture theatres, conference halls and seminar rooms currently have to be darkened if the speaker wants to project a presentation on screen. Unfortunately,…
Better than the human eye
— 18 Jan 2011 16:23 | TechnologyResearchers from Northwestern University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are the first to develop a curvilinear camera, much like the human eye, with the significant…
Hot embossing glass - to the nearest micrometre
— 3 Jan 2011 17:02 | TechnologyProjectors are getting smaller and smaller. Now that pictures are available in digital format almost everywhere, we need projectors to beam giant photos and films onto walls. Projectors…
Laser system developed at Stanford shows promise for cataract surgery
— 18 Nov 2010 11:42 | HealthImagine trying to cut by hand a perfect circle roughly one-third the size of a penny. Then consider that instead of a sheet of paper, you're working with a scalpel and a thin, elastic,…
Multifocal contact lenses may reduce vision for night driving
— 4 Nov 2010 13:00 | HealthA new study suggests that older adults who wear multifocal contact lenses to correct problems with near vision, a very common condition that increases with age, may have greater difficulty…
Single-lens distance glasses reduce falls in active older people
— 26 May 2010 11:19 | HealthProviding single lens distance glasses to older people who wear multifocal glasses and who regularly take part in outdoor activities is a simple and effective way of preventing falls,…