News tagged with lens systems

Terminator-style info-vision takes step towards reality

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 ...

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

Nanowire lens can reconfigure its imaging properties

(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 ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 3 | with audio podcast feature

Argonne-pioneered X-ray lens to aid nanomaterials research

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.

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Aug 16, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Sony Introduces New 3D Digital Still Cameras

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.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jul 08, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Novel ion trap with optical fiber could link atoms and light in quantum networks

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 ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jul 08, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Novel zoom objective with deformable mirrors

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 ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jan 18, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Next generation lens promises more control

(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 ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Dec 20, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (24) | comments 1

Sony Develops High Frame Rate Single Lens 3D Camera Technology

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). ...

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (9) | comments 4

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

Can you see me now? Flexible photodetectors could help sharpen photos

(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 ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 13, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 0