{"id":583,"date":"2004-12-02T18:42:26","date_gmt":"2004-12-02T18:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2004\/12\/02\/EvenYourCameraCanBeTearyEyedNow.aspx"},"modified":"2004-12-02T18:42:26","modified_gmt":"2004-12-02T18:42:26","slug":"even-your-camera-can-be-teary-eyed-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2004\/12\/02\/even-your-camera-can-be-teary-eyed-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Even your camera can be teary eyed now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Imagine a lens for your camera phone that is very small and has no moving parts yet is still able to focus and zoom like the &#8220;huge&#8221; lens you already have.&nbsp; French startup Varioptic&nbsp;has come up with a technology that makes zoom lens elements which have been shrunk down to a couple millimeters in size&#8230; but they say they&#8217;ll go smaller.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>The technology is very cool.&nbsp; They sandwich a couple of liquids of similar density into their element and move the edges of the liquid &#8220;bubble&#8221; by applying electrostatic pressure.&nbsp; The surface tension forces the shape to bulge, focusing the element.&nbsp; Clever.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Now maybe that <A href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/B000153ZXI\/102-9808770-9005748?v=glance\">Dick Tracy<\/A> watch can really have a video phone!<\/P><br \/>\n<P><IMG src=\"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/content\/binary\/varioptic-lens.jpg\" border=0><\/P><br \/>\n<P><A href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2004\/12\/01\/varioptics_liquid_lens\/\">Get the whole <EM>picture<\/EM> on this story at the register<\/A>.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine a lens for your camera phone that is very small and has no moving parts yet is still able to focus and zoom like the &#8220;huge&#8221; lens you already have.&nbsp; French startup Varioptic&nbsp;has come up with a technology that makes zoom lens elements which have been shrunk down to a couple millimeters in size&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,33],"tags":[79,82],"class_list":["post-583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-techgear","category-techhardware","tag-techgear","tag-techhardware"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}