Bionic Eye: Spy
August 9, 2008 – 7:04 pmesearchers have announced a technological development they say will improve the functionality of digital cameras and other imaging products. Yonggang Huang, a professor at Northwestern University, and John Rogers of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have created a lens they said was inspired by the human eye. In addition to enhancing digital camera technology, the eye-shaped lens could have an impact on many devices, Huang said. "Camera technologies can benefit directly from these advances. We believe, more generally, that many new application possibilities will emerge from the ability to integrate ... optoelectronic devices onto curved surfaces. Bring electronics to the human body in the form of advanced biomedical devices is one broad area of possible application," he told TechNewsWorld. Before the technology can be used in something like an optical prosthetic, however, other issues must also be resolved. "We would like to explore the ability of these types of approaches for implantation into the ...
