The Shiniest Spy: How Everyday Objects Can Be Turned Into “Cameras”
A new computer vision system turns any shiny object into a camera of sorts, enabling an observer to see around corners or beyond obstructions. MIT…
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Surprising Study Finds Watching TV Is Good for the Planet
A new paper in the scientific journal Annals of Botany, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that watching nature documentaries makes people more interested in…
New Study Indicates That Watching TV With Your Child Can Benefit Their Cognitive Development
Watching television can be beneficial, according to researchers who are examining how passive screen use affects a young child’s development. The amount of television shows…
20 Times More Intense: New Material Will Help Improve Phone and Television Displays
Researchers have created fluorophores between 2.4 and 20 times more intense than analogs. Scientists have created, synthesized, and analyzed a new class of fluorophores, which…
Quantum-Dot Technology Ready to Improve LCD TVs
New quantum-dot technology is set to make LCD TVs more colorful and energy-efficient, all while costing less than OLED displays and other color gamut boosting…
3D+2D Television Allows for Simultaneous 3D and 2D Watching
Engineers at UC Santa Cruz have developed a 3D+2D television that combines both 2D and 3D, allowing viewers with stereo glasses to see three-dimensional images,…
Tensor Display Uses Several Layers of LCDs to Produce 3D Illusion
Similar to the dual layered LCD screens used by Nintendo’s 3DS to create glasses-free 3D images, engineers at MIT developed a “Tensor Display,” which uses…