I guess they meant focus?
Or maybe they meant that (no matter what the human eye does) their lenses will be able to zoom and focus by changing the shape of the lens elements.
As they said, it's first applications will be low cost optics, such as cell phone cams. They also mentioned endoscopes (eeewwwww!), so I guess they'd be great where compactness is an issue. I personally applaud endoscopes with smaller tubes. <g>
I wonder how long, or indeed if, they'll be able to apply this technology to higher end camera optics.
cheers, frank
"The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer
From: "Collin Brendemuehl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: OT: In search of the ulitmate lens Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 09:57:47 -0500
The future may be very exciting, optically at least.
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