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Sharp Develops Five-Primary-Color LCD That Faithfully Reproduces Real Surface Colors

Electronics / Hardware

created May 29, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 3

Sharp Corporation has developed a five-primary-color display that faithfully reproduces the real surface colors that humans are capable of perceiving. A prototype of this display will be exhibited at the international symposium ...





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Fish vision discovery makes waves in natural selection

Fish vision discovery makes waves in natural selection

Biology / Evolution

created Oct 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 1

Emory University researchers have identified the first fish known to have switched from ultraviolet vision to violet vision, or the ability to see blue light. The discovery is also the first example of an ...


Seeing through the skin

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 11, 2008 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (28) | comments 1

Feeling blue? According to Prof. Leonid Yaroslavsky from Tel Aviv University, the saying may be more than just a metaphor.


Glaucoma procedure now available at Mayo Clinic aims to prevent further eye damage

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jun 25, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

For the first time in Florida, patients with glaucoma have a new treatment option known as the Trabectome. The minimally invasive procedure, which is available at Mayo Clinic and takes about 20 minutes, is designed to decrease ...


Mystery of golden ratio explained

Researcher explains mystery of golden ratio

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (24) | comments 8

The Egyptians supposedly used it to guide the construction the Pyramids. The architecture of ancient Athens is thought to have been based on it. Fictional Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon tried to unravel ...


Computer vision may not be as good as thought

Computer vision may not be as good as thought

Technology / Other

created Jan 25, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (21) | comments 0

For years, scientists have been trying to teach computers how to see like humans, and recent research has seemed to show computers making progress in recognizing visual objects. A new MIT study, however, cautions ...


The aye-ayes have it: The preservation of color vision in a creature of the night

Biology /

created Sep 04, 2007 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0

A quest to gain a more complete picture of color vision evolution has led Biodesign Institute researcher Brian Verrelli to an up-close, genetic encounter with one of the world’s most rare and bizarre-looking primates.


No sunglasses required for fish supper

Biology /

created Oct 16, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Fishermen are always looking for a tasty catch - but it is the fish that have a natural advantage when it comes to spotting dinner, according to new research from The University of Manchester.


Modeling how we see natural scenes

Medicine & Health / Research

created May 21, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Sophisticated mathematical modeling methods and a “CatCam” that captures feline-centric video of a forest are two elements of a new effort to explain how the brain’s visual circuitry processes real scenes. The new model of ...


New theory of visual computation reveals how brain makes sense of natural scenes

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 19, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (18) | comments 0

Computational neuroscientists at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a computational model that provides insight into the function of the brain's visual cortex and the information processing that enables people to perceive ...


Mantis shrimps could show us the way to a better DVD

Mantis shrimps could show us the way to a better DVD

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Oct 25, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (19) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- The remarkable eyes of a marine crustacean could inspire the next generation of DVD and CD players, according to a new study from the University of Bristol published today in Nature Photonics.



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