A new discovery will make it possible to create pixels just a few hundred nanometres across that could pave the way for extremely high-resolution and low-energy thin, flexible displays for a... Read more
The worst has happened. You receive an emailed kidnap demand with a picture of your loved one in dire straits. You contact the authorities, and in a flash (relatively speaking), they have id... Read more
100% of the image is restored using a reduced version containing between 1% and 10% of the information from the original In his PhD thesis, Daniel Paternain-Dallo, Computer Engineer of the N... Read more
OrCam, a tiny wearable computer, uses audio feedback to relay visual data; it can even help the blind read. A new device called OrCam could be life-changing for the visually impaired and bli... Read more
But I wondered, what if there could be no boundary at all? Throughout the history of computers we’ve been striving to shorten the gap between us and digital information, the gap betwee... Read more
LG says its researchers spent five years developing the optimum curvature Samsung and LG were duking it out at CES this year with dueling curved OLED TVs that each claimed was a world... Read more
“This is a significant breakthrough which will revolutionise the way visual media are produced” View the movie The team behind the project – University of Bath, Root... Read more
This is incredible. Taken by the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) at the ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile, this 108,500×81,500-pixel image is an inter... Read more
By synchronizing 98 tiny cameras in a single device, electrical engineers from Duke University and the University of Arizona have developed a prototype camera that can create images with unp... Read more
It could reduce by two-thirds the number of transistors needed IN A novel called “The Difference Engine”, published in 1990, William Gibson and Bruce Sterling wrote of an alternative Victori... Read more
Have you ever looked at a particulalry stunning photograph and wished you could really immerse yourself in it? A recent project attempts to do just that, with the help of a good camer... Read more