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Vairdo Announces Pre-Order Beta Release of Multi-Featured Camera that Combats Dangerous Driving

Vairdo Inc has gathered some impressive client names recently - namely Google X and Georgia Tech, among others – and is now working along with Georgia Tech on patented driver safety technologies.

28 Jul 2016

Hammacher Schlemmer Unveils The Sleep Promoting Glasses

Continuing its 168-year history of offering the Best, the Only and the Unexpected, Hammacher Schlemmer announces The Sleep Promoting Glasses, reading glasses that filter the sleep-disrupting blue light emitted by electronic devices.

28 Jul 2016

CrowdOptic, Solford Industries Launch Incident Command Vision Powered by CrowdOptic Eye

CrowdOptic and Solford Industries today announced the launch of Incident Command Vision (ICV) powered by CrowdOptic Eye™, a wireless helmet camera system designed for firefighters and law enforcement personnel to stream live video from any location.

28 Jul 2016

AOLI Obtains First Adaptive-Optics Closed-Loop Results

The Adaptive Optics Lucky Imager (AOLI) on the William Herschel Telescope (WHT) has obtained its first adaptive-optics closed-loop results, an important milestone in the development of this state-of-the-art instrument that aims at combining adaptive optics (AO) and lucky imaging (LI) to obtain the highest-ever resolution images at visible wavelengths from the ground.

27 Jul 2016

Northwestern Engineering Team Develops New Spectroscopy-Based Super-Resolution Optical Imaging Platform

In 2014, an international trio won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing super-resolution fluorescence microscopy, a technique that made it possible to study molecular processes in living cells.

26 Jul 2016

New Display Could Enable Audience to Watch 3D Films Without Extra Eyewear

3D movies provide viewers with a completely new experience by allowing them to visualize places and objects in ways that are otherwise not possible. However, unattractive 3D glasses are essential to enjoy every 3D experience. Fortunately, a display developed by a group of researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) and Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science could enable audiences to watch 3D movies without wearing 3D glasses.

26 Jul 2016

New Multi-Photon Microscope Captures 3D Images of Thick Living and Fixed Tissues

You can’t study what you can’t see. That is why the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine’s Imaging Core is investing in a multi-photon microscope. The new device, which specializes in capturing 3-D images of thick living and fixed tissues, is to be installed at Penn Vet this summer and will enhance the bio-imaging infrastructure there and in Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine.

22 Jul 2016

New Technique Could Capture Crucial Details of the Eyes with Single Facial Scan

A digitally created face can have the most realistic looking skin imaginable and still look fabricated to audiences if the eyes aren't quite right. But a new technique developed by Disney Research can capture the crucial, yet subtle details of the eyes with just a single facial scan, or even a single photo.

21 Jul 2016

Disney Research’s Single-Camera Method Could Capture Facial Performance

Facial performance capture, a key component of visual effects for movies and computer games, can be obtained using just a single camera with a new methodology developed by Disney Research.

21 Jul 2016

New Method Could Enhance Rendering of High-Quality Images from 3D Models

Disney Research has developed a new method to improve the rendering of high-quality images from 3-D models by drastically reducing the noise, or discolored pixels, contained in the animated images, while preserving fine detail.

21 Jul 2016