eurekalert.org — Using the eyes of insects such as dragonflies and houseflies as models, a team of bioengineers, has created a series of artificial compound eyes. These eyes can eventually be used as cameras or sensory detectors to capture visual or chemical information from a wider field of vision than previously possible, even with the best fish-eye lens.
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baltakateiApr 29, 2006
Go Ki-Hun Jeong!
boxomojoApr 29, 2006
the ':(' on the end of that comment makes it so worth the + digg.
mistshadow2k4Apr 29, 2006
So, now some will have eyes like LaForge in First Contact?
waterdragonApr 30, 2006
THAT's the article I was looking for. Read it a few days ago in digg4stories area, couldn't find it today. It's just like this story, but with a picture. I was starting to think that I had imagined the picture.
waterdragonApr 30, 2006
Don't you mean LaForge in ST Next Gen? ( I guess I never watched first contact) I was thinking of exactly that. Does ayone remember a recently dugg article about a lens that conects into the brain thru electrodes, and allows a blind person to 'see'-- at least the outlines of objects?Well I was thinking, that if this bug-eye-making technology can be combined with that one, it might be applied to blind people, but would make them more like the character 'Geordy LaForge', with enhanced vision, similar to that of an insect. The most important thing is that the whole system is fit inside a piece of a car's air filter....so it can look like LaForge's 'visor'Cool beans! (oops...that is sooo 'last night'....sorry!)