Scientists at the University of Texas in Austin have successfully "cloaked" a three-dimensional object in free space for the first time. Unfortunately they were only able to do so for waves in the ...

Researchers from Finland and Taiwan have discovered how graphene, a single-atom-thin layer of carbon, can be forged into three-dimensional objects by using laser light. A striking illustration was ...

The light detected on an image sensor is composed of direct light, that travels directly from the light source to an object in the line of sight of the sensor, and indirect light that interacts with ...

Scheme illustration of object identification and all-optical 3D reconstruction system. (a) A contour surface image of the object can be obtained in a single processing of the system. (b) High-contrast ...

In a New York Times article earlier this month an anonymous source at Apple was quoted saying “You will be very surprised how you interact with the new tablet”. Of course nobody knows what that will ...

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have created a way to manipulate objects in photos in three dimensions, allowing you to see all sides of formerly 2D objects. How is it done? Some might say ...

Neuroscientists at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) have discovered how we see objects in depth. Even if computers are better than humans in chess games, they can't beat us in the field of object ...

The new HP TopShot LaserJet Pro M275 solves a problem you probably didn’t think would have a solution: how to create a digital image of a three-dimensional object without having it look funny. A ...

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In June of 1999, Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins invested $25 million into an early-stage company developing a new search engine called Google, paving the way for a revolution in how knowledge ...

After five years of steady progress, scientists are now edging closer and closer to mastering real-world invisibility. Sure, researchers have already made marked strides toward making objects ...