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Mac Retina Display Specifications Revealed

NPD DisplaySearch Senior Analyst Richard Shim is one of the first figures to discuss laptop Retina displays at large. He says manufacturers are beginning to ramp up production, and that the 15-inch and 13-inch versions are already available for Apple’s MacBook Pros. Shim also dishes out actual specifications, t...

17 May 2012
17:31 GMT

Mac-Compatible Retina Displays Now Available

A person with ties to the display industry has confirmed for CNet that Retina LCD panels are ready for inclusion in the next-generation MacBook Pros.DisplaySearch Senior Analyst Richard Shim is quoted as saying that super high-resolution panels at 13.3- and 15.4-inches are already available from suppliers. These are ...

17 May 2012
07:51 GMT

Apple to Announce the “Mac Retina Display” at WWDC

Advising Apple fans to hold off their purchase of a new Macintosh computer in the next month or so, ABC News claims to have independently confirmed all rumors regarding the Retina display refresh for Macs. Scheduled for unveiling at this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference, the entire range of Macintosh com...

16 May 2012
06:52 GMT

Light-Powered Retinal Implants Created

Stanford University investigators have created a new type of retinal implant, which can partially restore vision in people who suffer from the effects of accidents or medical conditions. The implants contain photovoltaic cells, which means that they can be powered by light. The designers of the medical device say t...

14 May 2012
05:47 GMT

OS X 10.7.4 Includes More Evidence of Retina Display Macs

New evidence has emerged in OS X 10.7.4 pointing to Retina display Macs in the near future. This is not the first time such evidence emerges, but it’s certainly worth discussing, given the widespread rumors of a major display upgrade on full-fledged Macintosh computers. Currently, the only devices using a Reti...

11 May 2012
04:31 GMT

Shipping Accident May Lead to Cure for Blindness

Funny how science works! After 10 years of research and 9,000 papers published on the root cause of an eye disease called choroidal neovascularization (CNV), a shipping accident is what ultimately led a scientist to uncover a novel mechanism that may be underlying the condition. Indiana University Biocomplexity Ins...

4 May 2012
10:07 GMT

Evernote iPad Apps Get Retina Graphics

Evernote, the company behind the world’s most popular note taking solutions, has updated two of its iPad apps to support the Retina display on Apple’s new tablet computer. One of the company’s recently-released iOS apps, Skitch, has received “graphics and interface [optimizations] for the iPa...

19 March 2012
06:52 GMT

Simulating the iPad 3 Retina Display - Screenshots

iOS developer Kevin Ng has created some impressive graphics to reveal what his Food Run game would look like on the iPad 3's 2048 x 1536 "Retina Display". On his blog, he shares Apple’s Retina-display marketing speak with the world, noting that “Retina Display means a display whose pixels are so sma...

2 March 2012
04:49 GMT

Apple Invites Reveal a Retina Display iPad 3

There’s much you can tell from an event invitation from Apple, such as one intriguing new feature like the lack of a Home button, or the Retina display on the iPad 3. If you look closely at the image in Apple’s press invite to the March 7 event in San Francisco, the display on that touch-controlled devic...

29 February 2012
04:57 GMT

Exclusive: New Evidence of Retina Macs Straight from OS X Mountain Lion

While some like to sift through code strings for evidence of high-resolution displays on future Macs, less savvy users have more obvious places to make discoveries that lend credence to rumors of Retina display Macs. Particularly, the icon of the newly-introduced Notes application in OS X Mountain Lion. All other i...

22 February 2012
07:09 GMT

iPad 3 Developers May Be Required to Own Retina Macs Soon

There’s a pretty good chance Apple will introduce an all-Retina Mac lineup this year, one programmer theorizes. If anything, at least development machines will sport double the pixel count, he suggests.iOS developer David Smith has created a chart to demonstrate that coders who use Macs to craft the apps for Ap...

12 February 2012
07:37 GMT

Apple Orders iOS Developers to Make Retina Graphics

Going by an email sent out to registered Apple developers this week, Cupertino wants all titles in the App Store to feature high-resolution Retina display graphics. The email mentions that developers must upload new screenshots in the RGB field with at least 72 dpi (dots per inch) and a resolution of 960 x 640 pixel...

8 February 2012
03:11 GMT

Retina MacBook Pros with 2880x1800 Resolution on the Way - Report

A new report from China says Apple will release a high-resolution MacBook Pro lineup in the second quarter of 2012.Citing sources in the upstream supply chain, Digitimes says the new computers will boast a display resolution of 2880 by 1800, which should set new standards for panel specifications in the notebook indu...

14 December 2011
06:01 GMT

Deciphering the Language of the Brain Brought Closer

A team of investigators from the Salk Institute for Biological Studies brought science a step closer towards understanding the language of the brain. Figuring out how neurons communicate with each other to underlie capabilities such as sight has been a major goal of research for centuries. The basics of sight are fai...

4 April 2011
04:37 GMT

New Insight Obtained on the Human Eye

Though investigated constantly, the human eye remains one of the most complex constructs in the natural world. Recently, researchers in Germany managed to clear the mystery surrounding the way it works a bit, when they looked at how various neurons communicate with each other. Scientists have known the basic mechanis...

10 March 2011
10:08 GMT

New Therapy Developed Against Macular Degeneration

A team of investigators from the United States announces the discovery of a new molecular mechanism in the human eye, that apparently plays an important role in the development of geographic atrophy.This condition is one of the major causes driving the rate of untreatable blindness cases up in the industrialized worl...

7 February 2011
04:46 GMT

Anorexia Could Lead to Blindness

A new study published online in the British Journal of Ophthalmology, suggests that the eating disorder anorexia nervosa could cause serious eye damage, like anatomical and functional impairment of the optic nerve and the retina.Anorexia nervosa is a condition that affects up to 3 percent of affluent women in develop...

20 October 2010
05:08 GMT

iPod touch 4 Boasts Inferior Retina Display, Tests Show

The folks at letemsvetemapplem.eu have posted a series of videos which compare the iPhone 4 and the fourth-generation iPod touch. One of the videos interestingly (though not surprisingly) reveals that Apple is not using the same kind of Retina display in the two devices. The first video posted by the Czeh site is a ...

15 September 2010
06:23 GMT

Retina 'Prototype' Created from Stem Cells

A group of experts announces the creation of an early retina, an eight-layered structure that could one day be perfected to the point where it could replace damaged retinas in people losing their sight. The bioengineering innovation was achieved at the University of California in Irvine (UCI), where scientists used e...

27 May 2010
03:26 GMT

Paintballs Cause Blindness

Paintball is now one of the most popular sports in terms of recreation in the developed world, and people play it dressed up properly and using protection. Nevertheless, accidents can occur and, of those, the most dangerous involve hits to the eye. The high velocity at which the ball travels can cause blindness in an...

16 January 2009
06:03 GMT

How Do Optical Illusions Form?

The achievement of information on the environment through a sensory pathway is called perception. In the case of the human sight, the brain recognizes instantly a familiar object, from any angle and any distance.A book looks like a book, no matter if it is positioned vertically, horizontally or an edge. Still, the si...

16 January 2008
16:06 GMT

How Does the Retina Turn Light into Brain Visual Images?

90 % of the information we get about our environment comes through our eyes. Humans are visual beings. But how light turns into visual sensations is hard to explain. A new research published in Neuroscience sheds light on how the human and primate retinas turn light into signals going to the brain. The team funded by...

30 October 2007
08:08 GMT

Bats Can See You in Colors and in the Daylight!

We, humans, have in our retina two types of photoreceptor cells: the cones for daylight vision and color vision, and the more sensitive rods for night vision. This is also the case with most mammals. But nocturnal bats were traditionally believed to have just rods. Bats are assigned to two evolutionary groups (which...

16 June 2007
05:11 GMT

See the Nipple? It's Because of Your Jittery Eyes...

Your jittery eyeballs enable you to notice the nasty pimples on the face of an attractive girl from a distance. The minute, involuntary movements of our eyes enable the brain to detect the smallest details of your looks, as found by a team at Boston University led by neuroscientist Michele Rucci. Animals with sharp t...

14 June 2007
05:34 GMT

Stem Cells For New Eyes

Stem cells are planned ultimately for treating everything: from new hearts to new testicles. British researchers at the University of Sheffield are now trying to make new eyes. Not exactly eyes, but retinal tissues, a fact that would restore vision to many blind people. A handful of patients with age-related macular ...

6 June 2007
06:37 GMT

New Technique Offers 3-D Images of the Retina

The retina is one of the most fragile tissues of our organisms. So fragile, that the projects of the bionic eyes try to eschew it. But this is the tissue where images are captured and sent as electrical signals to the brain and in fact, the cause of almost all types of blindness. In order to improve the diagnoses of ...

7 May 2007
17:21 GMT

Zinc Provokes Blindness

The mineral zinc seems to play an important role in the development of a common type of blindness. Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the main cause of blindness among elderly people in the developed countries and scientists have discovered that high zinc levels in the eye's deposits signal AMD developmen...

21 March 2007
04:26 GMT


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