Fly-Inspired Robot Eyes Are Faster and More Accurate
	For most of us, a fly is a pest but, it turns out, its eyes could revolutionize robot vision (employed for unmanned vehicles, guided missiles, and high-speed industrial inspection robots in medical, commercial, industrial, and defense areas), improving and speeding up the detection of edges and boundaries of objects situated far beyond the capacities of traditional sensors – as is the case with tiny, moving objects. A team from the Nava ... [read more >>]
	12 May 2008, 04:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Why Does Our Vision Adapt to the Dark so Slowly?
	All men who go clubbing know it: in the dark, all the girls are pretty. That's another story during daylight. Try the opposite and it will also result tricky: from the outdoors on a bright sunny day into a dark room, we can hardly distinguish anything at first. But we gradually start to detect the room's contents, a phenomenon named "dark adaptation", which takes 20 to 30 minutes. We have two types of light-sensi ... [read more >>]
	15 August 2007, 04:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia