SMART technology converts existing mobile phone cameras into high-resolution microscopes
The world's smallest LED, smaller than the wavelength of light, can transform mobile phone cameras into high-resolution microscopes.
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JJ Shavit
- Nov 22, 2022
Groundbreaking app creates time-lapse videos with a smartphone
An app developed by Cornell researchers uses augmented reality to help users repeatedly capture images from the same location with a phone.
JJ Shavit
- Nov 20, 2022
Groundbreaking technology could put an end to camera 'notches' on smartphones
One potential application for the technology is integration of displays with different types of sensors and cameras (camera notches).
Joshua Shavit
- Oct 24, 2022
MIT students reimagine and animate old-school instant cameras
MIT researchers create KineCAM, an instant camera that yields images that appear to move.
JJ Shavit
- Oct 17, 2022
Researchers use digital cameras, machine learning to predict neurological disease
In order to streamline diagnosing patients with multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease, researchers used cameras to capture gait data.
JJ Shavit
- Oct 9, 2022
MIT researchers build a battery-free, wireless underwater camera
The device could help scientists explore unknown regions of the ocean, track pollution, or monitor the effects of climate change.
JJ Shavit
- Jan 6, 2022
Breakthrough in separating plastic waste: Machines can now distinguish 12 different types of plastic
It's very difficult to tell the difference between different types of plastics, and this is what makes it difficult to separate and recycle.
JJ Shavit
- Dec 5, 2021
New camera is the size of a grain of salt and takes crisp, full-color, photos
The new system can produce crisp, full-color images on par with a conventional compound camera lens 500,000 times larger in volume.
JJ Shavit
- Nov 21, 2021
‘Surgery selfies’ could spot serious infections early, study says
Smartphone pictures of post-surgical wounds taken by patients and then assessed by clinicians can help with the early ID of infections
JJ Shavit
- Oct 21, 2021
New app transforms an iPhone into a 3D augmented reality-ready camera
To capture 3D humans, the standard approach is to perform a volumetric capture within a specialized studio equipped with dozens of cameras.
Joshua Shavit
- Sep 11, 2021
Facebook, Ray-Ban launch smart glasses—who will wear them?
Seven years after the ill-fated Google Glass, and five years after Snap rolled out Spectacles, Facebook is trying its hand at smart glasses.
JJ Shavit
- Jul 27, 2021
New technology developed to check body temperature with smartphone camera
Thermal-imaging sensors that detect and capture images of the heat signatures of human bodies and other objects
JJ Shavit
- Jul 27, 2021
New technology to check body temperature with smartphone camera
Technology for low-cost, thermal-imaging sensors has been developed for use in smartphones and autonomous vehicles
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