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Learn how to look great and feel great May 2nd with the hottest new treatments available FRANKLIN, Wis., May 2, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Great Lakes Dermatology is bringing a night of anti-aging and beauty to patients and consumers: Announcing the second annual "Look Great. Feel Great" open house, held from 6 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, May 2 at the Franklin Clinic, located at 10500 W. Loomis Road in Franklin, Wisconsin. "Look Great. Feel Great" will feature top-notch, popular treatments...
Hydrophilic Lens Offerings Enhance and Extend Bausch + Lomb's Ophthalmic Surgery Portfolio ALISO VIEJO, Calif. and LIEGE, Belgium, May 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Bausch + Lomb, the global eye health company, and PhysIOL, an experienced manufacturer of intraocular lenses, today announced that Bausch + Lomb will begin distributing several lines of PhysIOL's hydrophilic acrylic intraocular lenses (IOLs) in select markets across Asia, Europe and the Middle East beginning this month....
Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online As Healthy Vision Month kicks off a new study has found that eye irritation or discomfort that comes from use of contact lenses may be easily fixed by simply changing to a different type of lens or lens care product. The study is published in the May issue of Optometry and Vision Science. Daniel Tilia, BOptom, MOptom, of Brien Holden Vision Institute in Sydney, Australia, and his colleagues wrote in their research paper, “Ocular...
High Performance OV9728 Utilizes OmniBSI+(TM) Pixel to Achieve Industry Standard for Premium Video Specifications SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- OmniVision Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: OVTI), a leading developer of advanced digital imaging solutions, today announced a cost-efficient and compact 720p high definition (HD) CameraChip(TM) sensor, designed specifically for secondary cameras in notebooks, tablets and smartphones, as well as the rapidly developing...
FDA Cleared ChromaGen Lenses Are A Life-Changing Aid For People Struggling With Dyslexia And Other Reading Problems BOSTON, April 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Words that move from left to right or up and down, words that are blurry or come in and out of focus or words that appear to float on the page, seeing double words or double sentences, re-reading the same lines - these are some of the reading difficulties that students everywhere are struggling with. These symptoms can cause...
ChemImage Sensor Systems (CISS) develops innovative products that utilize proprietary chemical imaging technologies to address the challenges associated with chemical, biological, and explosive (CBE) threat detection. Pittsburgh, PA (PRWEB) April 29, 2013 ChemImage Corp. announced the launch of ChemImage Sensor Systems (CISS) today, a new subsidiary headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA. The new company will focus on developing innovative products designed for the detection of chemical,...
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Researchers have developed an app for smartphones powered by Google's Android operating system capable of measuring night sky brightness. The new application, called "Loss of the Night," will gather data so scientists can better understand light pollution on a worldwide scale. "In natural areas you can see several thousand stars with the naked eye" says Dr. Christopher Kyba, physicist at the Freie Universität. "In Berlin, we can...
Purdue University Researchers have found a way to see synthetic nanostructures and molecules using a new type of super-resolution optical microscopy that does not require fluorescent dyes, representing a practical tool for biomedical and nanotechnology research. "Super-resolution optical microscopy has opened a new window into the nanoscopic world," said Ji-Xin Cheng, an associate professor of biomedical engineering and chemistry at Purdue University. Conventional optical microscopes...
1 control unit with 3 camera heads sets new standard of versatility and value VERNON HILLS, Ill., April 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Packing unprecedented versatility into a single endoscopic video system, Richard Wolf Medical Instruments Corp. introduces the Endocam Logic HD, equipped with three interchangeable, high-definition camera heads that plug in to a single control unit to perform a multitude of procedures. "It's the MVP of endoscopic video systems," said Monica Sanders,...
MISHOR YAMIN, Israel, April 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Crystals Division of Rotem Industries (Israel) has manufactured the first production series of Hyper-hemispherical (240 degrees or more) sapphire domes dedicated for DIRCM/CIRCM applications. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130426/612546) The new developed Hyper-Hemispherical sapphire domes solve problem in current systems' design such as limited field of view, optical obstacles and huge drag. This development...
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Nature Photonics is a peer-reviewed scientific journal established in 2007 and published monthly by the Nature Publishing Group. As with other Nature journals, this periodical has no external Editorial Board with editorial decisions made by a fully-functioning in-house team. The journal covers research related to optoelectronics, laser science, imaging, communications, and other aspects of photonics. It publishes review articles, research papers, news and commentary, and research...
Optics Communications is a peer-reviewed rapid-publication scientific journal published by Elsevier. This journal has been in publication since April of 1969, according to the Library of Congress. It reports on all fields of optical science and technology. The following subjects are covered in Optics Communications: Physical optics, Optical information and image processing, Guided wave optics, Atomic and molecular physics, Optical properties of condensed and soft matter, Quantum optics,...
A telescope, designed to aid the observation of remote objects, collects some form of electromagnetic radiation (such as visible light). The Netherlands developed the first known practical telescope in the 17th century. The term "telescope" was termed in order to describe Galileo's instruments in 1611. However, Galileo was not the inventor of the telescope. It was Hans Lippershey, Zacharias Janssen, and Jacob Metius who are credited with the creation of the telescope. In 1668, Isaac Newton...
Bifocals are eyeglasses, commonly prescribed for presbyopia, with two distinct optical powers. Although there are arguments against him, Benjamin Franklin is generally credited with the invention of bifocals. After a correspondence between George Whatley and John Fenno it was thought that Franklin possibly invented the bifocals fifty years earlier than previously thought. Many inventions are worked on independently by many people and bifocals may have been the same, however, Franklin was...
A magnifying glass is a convex lens, usually mounted in a frame with a handle, which is used to produce a magnified image of an object. The glass works by creating a magnified virtual image of an object behind the lens. However, the distance between the lens and the object must be shorter than the focal length for the glass to work. If the distance is not correct then the image will appear small and inverted. Many magnifying glasses are mounted on a stand to insure the proper distance...
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