Adaptive Lens Based on Carnivorous Plant Mechanism

Adaptive Lens Based on Carnivorous Plant Mechanism

Venus flytrap on small scale(s)

Tamron Puts AF Motor in the 18-250mm F/3.5-6.3 Lens

Tamron Puts AF Motor in the 18-250mm F/3.5-6.3 Lens

Aimed at the Nikon D40 and D40x users

How Do Most People Get Blind?

How Do Most People Get Blind?

The fine interaction between the lens' proteins

How to "Fix" Your Vision?

How to "Fix" Your Vision?

From glasses to laser

Variable Liquid Lenses Could Revolutionize Cameras

Variable Liquid Lenses Could Revolutionize Cameras

No mechanical parts

Which Are the Dangers Menacing Our Eyes?

Which Are the Dangers Menacing Our Eyes?

Our eyes are more exhausted now than during the Stone Age

  • Space
  • By Lucian Dorneanu
  • July 12th, 2007
Astronomers See the Most Distant Galaxies in the Universe

Astronomers See the Most Distant Galaxies in the Universe

They used a strange, natural telescope

New Inexpensive Lens Does the Job of Adaptive Optics at a Fraction of the Price

New Inexpensive Lens Does the Job of Adaptive Optics at a Fraction of the Price

The new optical tool corrects distortion in laser beams

  • Space
  • By Lucian Dorneanu
  • June 21st, 2007
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, What's the Best Telescope of All?

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, What's the Best Telescope of All?

A liquid mirror telescope

New Liquid Lens Can Instantly Magnify Without Any Moving Parts

New Liquid Lens Can Instantly Magnify Without Any Moving Parts

It can switch between two degrees of magnification

  • Health
  • By Stefan Anitei
  • June 6th, 2007
Night Contact Lenses Restore Day Vision

Night Contact Lenses Restore Day Vision

Perfect vision without glasses or lenses

  • Health
  • By Stefan Anitei
  • May 28th, 2007
Contact Lens Linked to Eye Infection

Contact Lens Linked to Eye Infection

The severe Acanthamoeba keratitis

New

New "Hyperlens" Could Make Ordinary Microscopes Obsolete

A new optical design sees farther than any other magnifying device

Bending Light Into Invisibility

Bending Light Into Invisibility

Negative refraction

 
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