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Optical

HD Vision Lens Implant

December 3, 2009

Lenses made of light-sensitive silicone is used to less implants that provide patients with “HD vision” that is superior to 20/20. The silicone-based lens can be fine tuned many times post surgery to give HD vision capability and adjusted for bifocal and varifocal use. There is a video at source links. Source: Sky News via [...]

Telescopic Pixels: New Display Technology by Microsoft Research

July 21, 2008

Microsoft Research has published a paper in Nature Photonics that details a new display technology based on telescopic pixels that use two micromirros allowing for fast on/off switching times of just 1.5 milliseconds. 1.5ms isn’t too big a deal since there are monitors that you can buy right now that feature 2ms response times. So, [...]

NPD: Blu-ray 92.5%, HD-DVD 7.5%

January 22, 2008

These numbers are based on latest NPD Group report as blogged by Engadget. The numbers are based on, I believe, retail sales of Blu-ray and HD-DVD players from places like Best Buy.
I do believe that a single high-definition format for optical discs would help the market grow a bit faster since there are many folks [...]