Tech review: New MacBook Pro puts form over function
Steve Jobs was great at introducing devices before people realized they wanted or needed them.
View ArticleElephantnose fish's unique retina helps it see through mud
An international group of researchers has been studying the Peters elephantnose fish to try to find out how it can see in its murky habitat, and have discovered it has a unique system of crystal-lined...
View ArticleSpecialty contact lenses may one day help halt the progression of...
Nearsightedness, or myopia, affects more than 40 percent of people in the U.S. and up to 90 percent of children in some parts of Asia. The problem begins in childhood and often progresses with age....
View ArticleFirst mouse, now human, lab-grown eye tissue
Producing retinal tissue from human embryonic stem cells is now possible thanks to a team of researchers led by Yoshiki Sasai of the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe, Japan.
View ArticleBreakthrough in augmented reality contact lens: Curved LCD display holds...
The Centre of Microsystems Technology (CMST), Imec's associated laboratory at Ghent University (Belgium), announced today it has developed an innovative spherical curved LCD display, which can be...
View ArticleSenate takes step toward banning stalking software (Update 2)
A loophole that permits software companies to sell cyberstalking apps that operate secretly on cellphones could soon be closed by Congress. The software is popular among jealous wives or husbands...
View ArticleResearchers restore light sensitivity to retina using polymer-based...
(Phys.org) —A team of researchers in Italy has successfully demonstrated a means for restoring light sensitivity to a damaged rat retina by incorporating an inorganic polymer with nerve cells. In their...
View ArticleArcherfish get an eye test (w/ video)
(Phys.org) —A modified version of an eye test used to assess visual acuity in the military has been given to archerfish by scientists to help explain how these remarkable fish are able to accurately...
View ArticleGentle touch and the bionic eye: Using haptics to improve outcomes for people...
Normal vision is essentially a spatial sense that often relies upon touch and movement during and after development, there is often a correlation between how an object looks and how it feels. Moreover,...
View ArticleTeam develops in vivo flexible large scale integrated circuits (w/ Video)
A team led by Professor Keon Jae Lee from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at KAIST has developed in vivo silicon-based flexible large scale integrated circuits (LSI) for bio-medical...
View ArticleLiving in space
Every day, 400 kilometres above our heads, there are astronauts living in space. Their home is the ISS, the frontier outpost of human exploration, and a workplace like nothing on Earth. With spacewalks...
View ArticleBell Labs researchers build camera with no lens
(Phys.org) —A small team of researchers at Bell Labs in New Jersey has built a camera that has no lens. Instead, as they explain in their paper they've uploaded to the preprint server arXiv, the camera...
View ArticleNew array measures vibrations across the skin, may help engineers design...
In the near future, a buzz in your belt or a pulse from your jacket may give you instructions on how to navigate your surroundings. Think of it as tactile Morse code: vibrations from a wearable,...
View ArticleResearchers transform fluorescent proteins into a scaffold for manipulating...
(Phys.org) —Jonathan Tang had a problem. A graduate student studying neural circuitry in the retina, he wanted to do more than identify fluorescent cells that send signals to the brain. He sought to...
View ArticleDynamic Vision Sensor tech works like human retina
(Phys.org) —If technology expertise can advance artificial intelligence, what can we imagine for artificial vision? An interesting development in artificial vision comes from a Swiss company iniLabs....
View ArticleA smartphone that's a sight for sore eyes in Kenya
Simon Kamau, 26, has been in almost constant pain since he was a playful three-year-old and accidentally pierced his eye with a sharp object, but smartphone technology now offers hope.
View ArticleBright eyes: Study finds reindeers' eyes change colour with Arctic seasons
Researchers have discovered the eyes of Arctic reindeer change colour through the seasons from gold to blue, adapting to extreme changes of light levels in their environment and helping detect predators.
View ArticleResearchers discover fish with a previously unknown type of eye
The University of Tübingen's Institute of Anatomy has discovered a fish with a previously unknown type of eye. The aptly-named glasshead barreleye lives at depths of 800 to 1000 meters. It has a...
View ArticleNew technique detects microscopic diabetes-related eye damage
Indiana University researchers have detected new early-warning signs of the potential loss of sight associated with diabetes. This discovery could have far-reaching implications for the diagnosis and...
View ArticleApple, NTT Docomo reach deal on iPad sales
Apple has reached an agreement with Japanese telecom operator NTT Docomo for iPad sales in Japan, the companies said Wednesday.
View ArticleArtificial retina: Physicists develop an interface to the optical nerve
Physicists at Technische Universitat Munchen (TUM) are using the special properties of graphene to produce key elements of an artificial retina. With their research program the researchers were...
View ArticleCarbon nanotube film restores light sensitivity to blind retinas
(Phys.org) —Light striking the retina in the back of the eye is the first major step in the vision process. But when the photoreceptors in the retina degenerate, as occurs in macular degeneration, the...
View ArticleArtificial retina could someday help restore vision
The loss of eyesight, often caused by retinal degeneration, is a life-altering health issue for many people, especially as they age. But a new development toward a prosthetic retina could help counter...
View ArticleNanotubes may restore sight to blind retinas
The aging process affects everything from cardiovascular function to memory to sexuality. Most worrisome for many, however, is the potential loss of eyesight due to retinal degeneration.
View ArticleVeterinary researchers study retinal scans as early detection method for mad...
New research from Iowa State University shows that a fatal neurological disease in cows can be detected earlier by examining the animal's retinas.
View ArticleReview: Apple MacBook introduces exciting design, features
Apple has a history of deciding what features we need, and more important, what features we don't need in our computers and mobile devices.
View ArticleEye size found to account for some diversity among mammalian direction...
(Phys.org)—A team of researchers affiliated with the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke in Maryland and the University of Pennsylvania, has found that eye size might have more to...
View ArticleChickens may illuminate how humans developed sharp daylight vision
Humans belong to a select club of species that enjoy crisp color vision in daylight, thanks to a small spot in the center of the retina at the back of the eye. Other club members include monkeys and...
View ArticleImage stabilization in vertebrates depends on contrast between objects
Contrast has an impact on the optokinetic reflex, which enables us to clearly perceive the landscape from a moving train. LMU researchers have now shown that visual features that modulate this ability...
View ArticleFixated on food?
Contrast has an impact on the optokinetic reflex, which enables us to clearly perceive the landscape from a moving train. Researchers from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have now shown...
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