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The entire flat structure above is only 2mm thin and according to the Harvard team led by Professor Capasso, this is the smallest size they can create with the available…
Scientists at the Australian National University (ANU) have successfully developed a camera lens that is 2,000 times thinner than human hair.
The flexible camera can wrap around the subject to help capture the special angles that the current camera can not do.
So after 400 years, the telescope's design is about to be upgraded dramatically thanks to a project funded by DARPA.
This is a type of contact lenses that use biological materials, can be permanently implanted into the human eye.
The stealth technology of US scientists uses multiple layers of lenses, which can cause the object to disappear in the eyes of the observer.
International researchers at the University of Arizona have found a unique method of processing sulfur waste into plastic lenses that can be used for infrared devices.
An advanced contact lens developed by Professor Zeev Zalevsky of Bar-Ilan University in Israel will allow the blind to read Braille.
Ohio State University engineers have developed a lens that combines the visual power of the human eye and the insect.
A young American inventor designed a simple yet breakthrough camera lens that could be fitted to a camera
European and American scientists say the invention of a new type of contact lens, if used with special glasses, can bring telescopic vision to the wearer.
Inspired by the eye of insects, US scientists have said they have made digital dome cameras, with unusually wide angles and sharp images.
When you wear contact lenses from a Belgian university, your eyes can receive text messages and images from your mobile phone.
In the near future, the camera on the mobile phone will also be fitted with small lenses that allow you to change between extreme angles of photography to magnifying mod…
US researchers are working on a type of artificial lens, which aims to replace the damaged lens in the human eye.