CAMBRIDGE, UK — Varioptic announced it has developed its first liquid lens, the A316S, to offer optical image stabilization functionality to mobile phones The autofocus liquid lenses are already in ...

Samsung has filed a patent for a new type of liquid lens that provides not only autofocus capability, but also true optical zoom capability. Liquid lenses, with their small form factor and lack of ...

August 19, 2005 Taking a leaf from Mother Nature, scientists at A*STAR’s Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) in Singapore have developed tiny lenses made of liquid, which mimics the ...

Sunny Bains’s overview of liquid oil-and-water camera lenses in this month’s Wired is up on the web. If you’ve been following the technology there’s probably not a lot of information, but it’s ...

New data from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will assist in the design of optics for liquid immersion lithography, an old idea that recently has attracted new interest as a ...

Xiaomi will pack a liquid lens on the new Mi Mix. The company claims it has an optical structure just like the human eye. The lens will enable both telephoto and macro shots. Xiaomi is launching a new ...

Itochu and Holochip — yeah, I know. Never heard of them either. — have teamed up to make liquid lenses that will offer optical zoom and image manipulation without the mess of digital extrapolation. A ...

Researchers have developed an adaptive liquid lens, inspired by the functionality of the human eye. Using an electronically responsive fluid called dibutyl adipate, they created a lightweight, compact ...

Fig. 1. (a) Planar LC structure of a general PBOE. (b) Chromatic aberration in a broadband PBL. (c) LC structure for a multi-twist PBOE. (d) Experimental result of a broadband PBL. Augmented reality ...

IXI Eyewear – backed by more than $40 million in funding, including investment from Amazon – is preparing to launch a pair of glasses that automatically ...