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Next generation lens promises more control

Next generation lens promises more control

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Dec 20, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (22) | comments 1

(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 ...


The world's most common operation

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

As many as 10 million people around the world suffer from cataracts. Thomas Kohnen of the Goethe University in Frankfurt and his coauthors discuss cataract surgery with the implantation of an artificial lens in the current ...


Scientists obtain clearer view of how eye lens proteins are sorted

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New research reveals how proteins that are critical for the transparency of the eye lens are properly sorted and localized in membrane bilayers. The study, published by Cell Press in the November 3rd issue of Biophysical Jo ...


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

Technology / Engineering

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

(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 ...


Sony Develops High Frame Rate Single Lens 3D Camera Technology

Sony Develops High Frame Rate Single Lens 3D Camera Technology

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (8) | comments 4

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). ...


Time Lens

Time Lens Speeds Up Optical Data Transmission

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (15) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Cornell University have developed a device called a "time lens" which is a silicon device for speeding up optical data. The basic components of this device are an optical-fiber ...


Implanted tooth helps blind US woman recover sight

Medicine & Health / Other

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (10) | comments 0

A 60-year-old US grandmother, blind for nearly a decade, has recovered her sight after surgeons implanted a tooth in her eye as a base to hold a tiny plastic lens, her doctors said Wednesday.


Panasonic Introduces New LUMIX DMC-GF1

Panasonic Introduces New LUMIX DMC-GF1 Digital Camera

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

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

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. ...


A Kinoform's Best Friend: Diamond Refractive Lenses for Nanofocusing

A Kinoform's Best Friend: Diamond Refractive Lenses for Nanofocusing

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 03, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Brookhaven and Argonne National Laboratory researchers has demonstrated a reliable path for sculpting an intricate x-ray focusing lens out of diamond. Their technique, which was ...


Structure of protective protein in the eye lens revealed

Structure of protective protein in the eye lens revealed

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 31, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The human eye lens consists of a highly concentrated mix of several proteins. Protective proteins prevent these proteins from aggregating and clumping. If this protective function fails, the lens blurs and ...


Certain type of implanted lenses may be a treatment option for some patients with nearsightedness

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jul 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Implantable lenses made of a collagen-like substance appear to provide stable correction of moderate to high nearsightedness (myopia) over four years of follow-up, according to a report in the July issue of Archives of Op ...


Blur's noise and distortion reversed

Technology / Engineering

created Jul 08, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Errant pixels and blurry regions in a photo, whether digital or scanned, are the bane of photographers everywhere. Moreover, in vision processing research degraded photos are common and require restoration to a high-quality ...


'Flexible camera' replaces lens with fiber web

'Flexible camera' replaces lens with fiber web

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jul 07, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Imagine a soldier's uniform made of a special fabric that allows him to look in all directions and identify threats that are to his side or even behind him. In work that could turn such science ...


Sight for sore eyes (w/Video)

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jun 10, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0

In a world-first breakthrough, University of New South Wales (UNSW) medical researchers have used stem cells cultured on a simple contact lens to restore sight to sufferers of blinding corneal disease.


Bausch&Lomb settles 600 eye fungus lawsuits (AP)

Bausch & Lomb settles 600 eye fungus lawsuits

Medicine & Health / Other

created May 31, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Contact lens maker Bausch & Lomb Inc. had an overriding reason for going private in 2007: It wanted to handle a devastating recall of its flagship lens cleaner, its chief executive said, "without ...