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  Wednesday, 25 May 2005

Lens five times thinner than paper developed < 5:22:33 PM>.


Scientists at Canada's Universite Laval have invented a lens that is five times thinner than a piece of paper and can zoom without using mechanical parts. The lens is created by adding a small quantity of photosensitive material to a liquid crystal cell. When a weak electrical current is applied, the crystals realign differently from those in the periphery and thus take on the shape and behavior of a lens. The researchers have been able to modify the lens' focal distance from 1.6 to 8 meters in a few...
[Via Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)]

Canada411 1.2 < 3:42:56 PM>.


About Canada411
Find anybody’s information — phone number, address, postal code — anywhere in Canada directly from Dashboard!

Features :
- Find with or without exact first name and/or last name
- See the map of this person via MapQuest or Google Map
- Copy the information to clipboard in one click!
- Available in English and French
- French description available on my web site
[Via Mac OS X Downloads - Dashboard Widgets]

CBC/Radio-Canada - Putting Creativity on the Air < 12:52:16 AM>.

CBC president Robert Rabinovitch recently gave a speech about podcasting and other emerging broadcast technologies. The speech text is now available; it’s called: Putting Creativity on the Air.

Podcasting has been hailed as a saviour of, and a threat to, traditional radio. Here at CBC/Radio-Canada, we have a huge stake in delivering our radio content to audiences in new ways. We're challenged every day to reach audiences who have tuned radio out.