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PC Magazine
September 28, 2005
David Murphy |
Eyeballing Your Camera A Liquid lens for cameras is currently in development and would allow quicker and more precise focusing and optical zooming.   |
Technology Research News
April 20, 2005
Eric Smalley |
Telescopes Make Bug-Eye Optics Researchers have developed a prototype artificial compound eye made from three stacked sets of microlenses that form an array of tiny telescopes that could be used for camera phones, infrared vision systems and optical sensors. |
Chemistry World
August 2, 2006
Jessica Ebert |
Smart Microlenses Come Into Focus Liquid lenses that can flex between convex and concave forms in response to a change in temperature or pH could find uses in autonomous imaging systems for medical diagnostics, their inventors say. |
Chemistry World
December 22, 2010
Patricia Pantos |
Ferrofluids help you see better US researchers have used ferrofluids as liquid pistons that could be used to make adjustable liquid lenses with nearly perfect spherical interfaces for applications such as an optometrist's phoropter. |
Popular Mechanics
March 2007
Alex Hutchinson |
Forget Fisheye: A Photo Lens to Steer Robots A lens developed by South Korean researchers offers a wide-angle view without fisheye distortion, perfect for ceiling-mounted security cameras. Unlike images produced by fisheye lenses, straight lines appear straight. |
BusinessWeek
October 7, 2010
Olga Kharif |
Eyeglass Innovator: Ronald Blum Optometrist Ronald Blum says his electronic eyeglasses improve on bifocals and progressive lenses, which cause nausea and headaches for some wearers. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
March 2005
John Keller |
Electrowetting can yield rugged, inexpensive, low-power lenses Ask military optoelectronic-systems designers what they want most in lenses, and you will often hear rugged, lightweight, small size, and low cost. In the near future a technology called electrowetting may deliver these qualities and more. |
AskMen.com
Eric Huang |
FAQ On Contact Lenses If you wear contacts, or are considering getting them, you might have some unanswered questions. We've all heard stories and myths about contact lenses; the following is a list of some of the most frequently asked questions concerning this little invention. |
Reason
Aug/Sep 2001
Jeremy Lott |
Pupils Wide Open Prescription laws, generally regarded as a safeguard for the public, may be facilitating protectionism and price-fixing instead. Attorneys general in 33 states are suing the American Optometric Association for jacking up the price of contact lenses... |
Technology Research News
February 23, 2005 |
Rod arrays focus sound Researchers from the Polytechnic University of Valencia in Spain have produced a pair of flat lenses that control soundwaves. |
Reactive Reports
Issue 34
David Bradley |
The end of spectacles? A technique for forming a gel inside the eye under physiological conditions has been developed by US researchers. The gel could provide a permanent solution to the poor vision that afflicts almost everyone from middle-age onwards. |
PC Magazine
October 5, 2004 |
Zoom Most digital cameras have a zoom lens that lets you take in a wider view or get closer to the subject. |
Reactive Reports
Issue 33
David Bradley |
Two-faced Liquid Crystals A new class of programmable liquid crystals could be used to make variable optical filters for laboratory instrumentation and digital cameras; they might even be used to treat dyslexia. |
Technology Research News
April 23, 2003 |
Material makes backwards lens Researchers from the University of Toronto have constructed a prototype lens composed of a network of wires and tiny split rings that causes microwaves to have a negative bend, or index of refraction. |
Technology Research News
November 19, 2003 |
Liquid Crystal Tunes Fiber Researchers have combined photonic crystal and liquid crystal to make an optical fiber whose properties can change according to temperature. The combination allows the researchers to change the properties of the light inside the fiber. |
Chemistry World
March 6, 2007
Kira Welter |
Nano-Objects Under the Light Microscope Scientists have developed a lens that can transmit images over long distances with a resolution that is not restricted by light wavelength. |
Chemistry World
October 29, 2012
James Urquhart |
Fireflies inspire low-cost LED lighting Colleagues at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology have examined the intricate nanostructure of the firefly's lantern cuticle and created an artificial version for use as a high-power LED lens. |
National Defense
November 2009
Grace V. Jean |
In the Eye of the Beholder: Contact Lenses as Displays and Sensors Scientists believe that the little plastic discs that hundreds of millions of people rely on to see clearer may one day serve military personnel and medical patients as information displays and health monitoring devices. |
Chemistry World
June 3, 2011
Emma Shiells |
Ionic liquid advance over saline-based lenses Ionic liquids are the key to observing improved performance and wider temperature ranges for variable focus lenses over conventional saline alternatives, report scientists in China. |
Wired
January 19, 2009
Patrick Di Justo |
What's Inside: Bausch and Lomb ReNu A description of the ingredients in the popular contact solution. |
BusinessWeek
November 17, 2003
Carol Marie Cropper |
Lenses By Night, Clear Sight By Day Spooked by surgery? New contacts aim to correct myopia while you sleep. |
American Family Physician
October 1, 2001 |
What Should I Know About Refractive Surgery? What is refractive surgery?... Who gets refractive surgery?... What are the different kinds of refractive surgery?... Are PRK and LASIK right for me?... What should I think about before I decide to have refractive surgery?... |
Chemistry World
December 20, 2011
Simon Hadlington |
pH adjustable protein micro-lenses Scientists in China have used a common protein to create tiny optical lenses, a few tens of micrometres in diameter, whose focus can be adjusted simply by changing the pH of the surrounding medium. |
Chemistry World
June 10, 2012
Yuandi Li |
Polymer gel provides focus An injectable nanocomposite gel for replacing the eye lens could eliminate the need for complicated cataract surgery, say Japanese and Danish researchers. |
Chemistry World
February 9, 2015
Hugh Cowley |
Unexpected success with luminescent liquid crystals A simple and effective procedure to incorporate strongly-emitting inorganic clusters into nematic liquid crystals has been reported by a team from France. |
The Motley Fool
June 7, 2007
Billy Fisher |
Envisioning a Clear Future at Cooper The contact lens and eye care-product company posts a second-quarter loss upon restructuring, but revenues continue to grow. The outlook is fairly positive for Cooper shareholders for the remainder of the year. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
March 2005 |
Optoelectronics In Brief Photonic Products to offer Panasonic aspherical lenses... Opto Diode completes California-based LED wafer fab... etc. |
Reactive Reports
Issue 52
David Bradley |
Microscopic Contact Lenses Make Sense Gel lenses, resembling microscopic contacts, could find a role in biosensors for analysis and diagnostics, according to researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology. |
BusinessWeek
October 18, 2004
Lewis Braham |
Eye Surgery: It's Getting Sharper Laser eye surgery has improved, and newer techniques can fix trickier vision problems. |
