When a manufacturer tells you they make a spherical-aberration-free finite-conjugate double-aspheric lens, what do you say to them? That'll be the problem I'll have should I ever meet up with ...

IXI Eyewear – backed by more than $40 million in funding, including investment from Amazon – is preparing to launch a pair of glasses that automatically ...

Anyone see that recent Hummer commercial that has a really weird shot of a Hummer grill driving through the desert? That’s wide-angle distortion. A South Korean researcher at Nanophotonics has ...

Finnish startup IXI is crafting smart "autofocus" glasses that redefine clarity, using cutting-edge eye-tracking sensors and liquid-crystal lenses to seamlessly adjust your prescription in real time.

For those who are after the ultimate in stills optics, Sigma has just announced a new 14-24mm addition to the Art lens lineup that makes claim to have almost zero distortion. Making claim to have made ...

At CES, smart glasses were unveiled that replace multifocal lenses with real-time focus adjustment, no cameras or screens, ...

The miniaturization of electronics, in particular the electronic sensors on which digital images are captured, has seen digital cameras shrink to such a degree that they are now standard equipment on ...

Physicists in the US have made the first ultrathin flat lens. Thanks to its flatness, the device eliminates optical aberrations that occur in conventional lenses with spherical surfaces. As a result, ...