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Making a concave mirror using 15th century technology (2018)

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Foldscope: The Paper Microscope

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Optical microphone can separate multiple instruments from afar

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Before Ships Used GPS, There Was the Fresnel Lens

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Extreme depth-of-field light field camera thanks to an extinct marine arthropod

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Cheap technology for making optic lenses that could help 2.5B people and NASA

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Record-breaking camera keeps everything between 3 cm and 1.7 km in focus

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Meta-Perceptual Helmets

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I Heart Microscopes

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iPhone lidar with applications for the geosciences

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Myopia treatment 'smart glasses' from Japan to be sold in Asia

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Researchers shrink camera to the size of a salt grain

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Open-Source Plastic Scanner

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Eyeway's Retina-Tracking Foveated Display

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A single laser fired through a keyhole can expose everything inside a room

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Sony's new curved image sensors could shake up the whole camera industry

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Photographic Reference Scale (2019)

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Quantum microscope can examine cells in unprecedented detail

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Light-shrinking material lets ordinary microscope see in super resolution

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Zoomable lens without any moving parts

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Myopia treatment 'smart glasses' from Japan to be sold in Asia

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Highest resolution photos ever taken of snowflakes

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Live Cells seen with 7x Greater Sensitivity using new Microscopy Technique

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When X-Rays were used at the Shoe Store

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Engineers produce a fisheye lens that’s completely flat

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Mystery of superior Leeuwenhoek microscope solved after 350 years (2018)

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Holographic optics for thin and lightweight virtual reality

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Print your own laboratory-grade microscope for US$18

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The smallest large display would be projected straight onto your retina

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God Helmet

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Researchers create focus-free camera with new flat lens

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Novel Laser-Based Method Effectively De-Ices Aircraft

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Ingenious Low-Cost Tilt Detection System (2018)

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Optacon

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3D-printed microscope enables computational super-resolution imaging at $1200

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Making My Own Glasses

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Universal algorithm set to boost microscopes

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Contrary to Musk's claim, Lidar has some advantages in Self Driving technology

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Researchers create personalised sound projector with $12 webcam

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AI made from a sheet of glass can recognise numbers just by looking

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Goodbye Aberration: Physicist Solves 2,000-Year-Old Optical Problem

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Lumotive Says It Has a Practical Solid-State Lidar

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How does the Hololens 2 matter?

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A Camera Lens Made from an Iceberg

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Google’s Project Soli radar is sensitive enough to count sheets of paper

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Man says CES lidar’s laser was so powerful it wrecked his camera

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Inexpensive chip-based device may transform spectrometry

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IRL Glasses Block All the Screens Around You

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Magic Leap Review Part I

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PC Monitors: The Evolution of LED Backlights

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Looking Glass – A new type of holographic interface

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Bizarre Glasses Promise to Cure Motion Sickness

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Make a Pseudoscope (2005)

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Photographing glass: Lighting techniques for transparent glass objects

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FDA clears first contact lens with light-adaptive technology

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Simultaneous Imaging and Energy Harvesting in CMOS Image Sensor Pixels

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Lensless camera creates detailed 3-D images without scanning

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That’s a Big Microscope

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Cameras are about to get a lot smaller

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Avegant “Light Field” Display

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Metamaterial based flat lens promises possible revolution in optics

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CoeLux: Artificial Sunlight That’s Real Enough to Trick Your Camera and Brain

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No lens? No problem for FlatCam

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A New Microscope Can See Inside Moving Cells in Real Time (2014) [video]

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Lytro announces light field VR video camera

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Constructing a spectrometer using a CD

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This video camera is powered by light

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A Microscope That Can See Down to Individual Atoms

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Perfect colors, captured with one ultra-thin lens

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New Microscope Collects Dynamic Images of the Molecules that Animate Life

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Show HN: Multi-player Competitive Conway's Game of Life

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Cheap microscopes: Yours to cut out and keep

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Machine embroidery of light-emitting textiles with electroluminescent threads

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Researchers Develop Method for Getting High-Quality Photos from Crappy Lenses

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Augmented Reality in a Contact Lens

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Math Professor Invents Non-Reversing Mirror

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Public Lab DIY Spectrometry Kit

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Laser-powered bionic eye gives vision to the blind

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BlackOps Plastics (Opaque to the eye, transparent for cameras)

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Math professor's side mirror that eliminates 'blind spot' receives US patent

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Revolutionary "Light Field" camera tech - shoot-first, focus-later

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Water-lensed eyeglasses offer promise of sight for millions

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Flat lenses made of nanostructures transform tiny cameras and projectors

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The highest-resolution photos of snowflakes (2021)

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Fluorite lenses: Corrective capabilities beyond ordinary optical glass

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Disney unveils the HoloTile floor

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Spreadsheet "breaks" Apple Vision Pro eye-tracking

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DIY Macro PCB Photography

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Show HN: I made a tiny camera with super long battery life

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Polychromatic Pixels

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DifuzCam: Replacing Camera Lens with a Mask and a Diffusion Model

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