Liquid Lens Can Magnify at the Flick of a Switch 108
An anonymous reader writes "German engineers have designed the first liquid camera lens with no moving parts that provides two levels of zoom. 'Liquid lenses bend light using the curved boundary between watery and oily liquids. When the two liquids are held in the right container, the boundary between them can be made to curve in a way that focuses light simply by applying a voltage. Liquid lenses have attracted much attention because they are potentially smaller than conventional optics and cheaper to build. Samsung has already built them into some cellphones.'"
Lens isn't working (Score:5, Funny)
Shake It (Score:5, Funny)
Hubble (Score:4, Funny)
Earth to Hubble: Adjust lens voltage to 1.537mV.
Can I take camera as carry on luggage? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:This is old (Score:5, Funny)
That, or it's a badly phrased article.
In related news, German scientists have designed the first "circular device for the conveying of people and objects" and the first "source for the creation of heat and light by combustion of a 'fuel'." We may mock but the USPTO will still grant them a patent on the lot of it.
Re:Hubble (Score:1, Funny)
Wouldn't it be the Bubble Space telescope?
Re:Shake It (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Seeing double?? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Great for Democracy (Score:4, Funny)
But if the police police police police, who will police the police police?