A distant, partly shadowed Earth, as viewed from a 6,000-km-altitude orbit. This unusual image was acquired using an extremely miniaturized camera about the size of the edge of a 20 cent coin—a miniscule technology experiment ...
Space Exploration
Nov 8, 2023
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Thermometers can do a lot of things: Measure the temperature at the center of your perfectly braised chicken or tell you whether to keep your child home from school due to illness. But because of their size, traditional thermometers' ...
Nanophysics
Sep 26, 2023
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Researchers have made a tiny camera, held together with 'molecular glue' that allows them to observe chemical reactions in real time.
Nanophysics
Sep 2, 2021
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In his quest to bring ever-faster cameras to the world, Caltech's Lihong Wang has developed technology that can reach blistering speeds of 70 trillion frames per second, fast enough to see light travel. Just like the camera ...
Optics & Photonics
Oct 16, 2020
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When God saw that our egos needed deflating, he invented Skype. Skype is the 21st-century invention that sci-fi movies had been predicting for decades: phonavision. Actually it's "computavision," with a tiny camera at the ...
Internet
Jul 12, 2013
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(Phys.org) —In this age of advanced technology, how hard could it be to develop a robotic bird that flies by flapping its wings? Despite the apparent simplicity of the idea, it's very hard—if you want the bird to actually ...
Robotics
May 1, 2013
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Consumers can expect to wait a while before they're able to lay their hands on Google's much-hyped Internet-connected eyewear, Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt said Friday.
Consumer & Gadgets
Apr 26, 2013
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British soldiers in Afghanistan have been issued with surveillance drones so small they can fit in the palm of a man's hand.
Engineering
Feb 4, 2013
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(Phys.org)—Do you love planes, airports and technology? And perhaps you've been lost at an airport at some stage in your travels?
Engineering
Oct 16, 2012
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(Phys.org) -- In the eye, the retina is the light sensitive tissue that lines its inner surface; packed with ganglion neurons, its job is to convert incoming information to something that the brain can understand. In some ...
