Retina

January 29th 2011

What’s the Difference Between the Human Eye and a Camera?

Pixiq has a great write up on the similarities and differences between the human eye and a camera. Apparently, we’re the same in image focusing and light adjustment but different in lens focus and sensitivity to light. What else? Pixiq’s breakdown gets even more interesting when they explain how cameras work like our eyes. The…

Tech News Casey Chan Jan 29

December 18th 2010

BMW Uses a Commercial to Burn Their Logo into Your Eye

How does a person remember ads? BMW will tell you. BMW flashed an audience with a blinding light that included a cutout of their logo. When the audience was told to close their eyes, they still saw the letters: BMW. The video explains that the effect it’s akin to staring at the sun for too…

Tech News Casey Chan Dec 18

July 8th 2010

Telescopic Eye Implants Magnify Life, Help People See Again

Telescopic eye implants have just been approved by the FDA and they’re just as crazy as they sound. It’s literally like attaching a miniature telescope to an eye, magnifying what a person can see by 2.2-2.7 times. These telescopic eye implants help people with macular degeneration, which is developing blind spots in the central vision…

Tech News Casey Chan Jul 8

June 23rd 2010

iPhone 4 and iPhone 3G Screens Compared Under a Microscope

Forget the controversy surrounding Apple’s claims about the iPhone 4’s Retina display. I’m more interested by these folks at Penn State University who decided to grab a microscope, an iPhone 4, an iPhone 3G, and start counting pixels. Those folks, PhD candidates Ryan White and Bryan Gauntt, found that “the iPhone 3G’s pixels measure 13…

Tech News Rosa Golijan Jun 23

October 26th 2009

You Always Wanted Pictures Shot Straight Into Your Retinas, Right?

“Retina display technology” sounds frightening if you think about it for more than a second. Brother’s upcoming specs beam 800×600 images refreshed at 60hz directly onto your retina, so that they appear, transparently, about a meter in front of you. They’re coming out next year, though they haven’t set a price. Separate, NEC’s planning a…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Oct 26

April 6th 2006

Retina Scanning in the Wild: Iraq Edition

The Iraqi Army (read “the U.S. Army”) is registering all of their soldiers using a portable iris scanner which reduces the complexity of the retina eye into a 512-byte code. The system, called the Biometric Automated Toolset, has a false acceptance rate of 1 in 1.2 million and can enroll users without an attached PC.…

Gadgets Johnb Apr 6

What’s the Difference Between the Human Eye and a Camera?

BMW Uses a Commercial to Burn Their Logo into Your Eye

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iPhone 4 and iPhone 3G Screens Compared Under a Microscope

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Retina Scanning in the Wild: Iraq Edition

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