Making smartphones smarter with see-through sensors Your smartphone’s display glass could soon be more than just a pretty face, thanks to new technology developed by researchers... Read more
New techniques magnify images without requiring bulky zoom lenses Imagine giving a presentation to a roomful of important customers when suddenly the projector fails. You whip out your smart... Read more
A team of engineers has designed a telescopic contact lens that can switch between normal and magnified vision by using slightly modified off-the-shelf 3D television glasses. The researchers... Read more
Slimmed-down telescopic contact lens switches between magnified and normal vision using a modified pair of liquid crystal eyeglasses Contact lenses correct many people’s eyesight but... Read more
“A general LED street light could reduce power consumption by 40 to 60 percent” 98 percent of lamp’s energy goes to lighting the street instead of the night sky Streetlights illumina... Read more
The nighttime twinkling of fireflies has inspired scientists to modify a light-emitting diode (LED) so it is more than one and a half times as efficient as the original. Researchers from Bel... Read more
The trained eye of a dermatologist can identify many types of skin lesions, but human sight only goes so far. Now an international team of researchers has developed an advanced optics system... Read more
While their experimental results are promising, it may be several years until this technology can be effectively deployed in your local movie theater From the early days of cinema, film prod... Read more
A layered design would split two key aspects of a light wave, enabling electromagnetic energy to pull objects Tractor beams, a staple of science fiction, may be moving closer to science fact... Read more