Liquid lenses

2012-04-30 Thread Stan Halpin
There was an item in the newspaper today - Dow Corning has been working with an NGO on ways to reduce the many problems associated with poor vision and lack of access to prescription corrective glasses. So they have been testing a prototype of a "self-adjustable" lens. A person puts on the glass

Re: Liquid lenses

2012-04-30 Thread Mark Roberts
Stan Halpin wrote: >There was an item in the newspaper today - Dow Corning has been working with >an NGO on ways to reduce the many problems associated with poor vision and >lack of access to prescription corrective glasses. So they have been testing a >prototype of a "self-adjustable" lens. A

Re: Liquid lenses

2012-04-30 Thread Mark Roberts
Mark Roberts wrote: >Stan Halpin wrote: > >>There was an item in the newspaper today - Dow Corning has been working with >>an NGO on ways to reduce the many problems associated with poor vision and >>lack of access to prescription corrective glasses. So they have been testing >>a prototype of a

Re: Liquid lenses

2012-04-30 Thread Tom C
> From: Stan Halpin > > There was an item in the newspaper today - Dow Corning has been working with > an NGO on ways to reduce the many problems associated with poor vision and > lack of access to prescription corrective glasses. So they have been testing > a prototype of a "self-adjustable" l

Re: Liquid lenses

2012-05-01 Thread Cotty
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Re: Liquid lenses

2012-05-01 Thread DagT
Part of the fun working with inventors is that you see these things from time to time. :-) The idea is old, but the problem with these lenses is to get a good optical surface, and some Norwegian scientists found that they could get that using thin microscope glass over a gel. The first time I