{"id":20815,"date":"2021-06-15T01:41:39","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T05:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=20815"},"modified":"2021-06-13T14:27:47","modified_gmt":"2021-06-13T18:27:47","slug":"look-ma-no-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/look-ma-no-hands\/","title":{"rendered":"look, ma &#8211; no hands &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2073-4352\/9\/10\/515\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-20816\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/crystals-09-00515-g003-550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/crystals-09-00515-g003-550.jpg 225w, https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/crystals-09-00515-g003-550-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>Toronto<\/strong>. Wouldn&#8217;t it be wonderful if a zoom lens was invented with the zoom controlled by electricity? Smartphone could off these tiny marvels and a light finger motion could shift the tiny zoom lens&#8217;s focal length.<\/p>\n<p>PHSC member and friend Russ Forfar sent me this intriguing article\u00a0from Science Daily from Cornell and published June 10th, 2021, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2021\/06\/210610162353.htm\">Novel liquid crystal metalens offers electric zoom<\/a>&#8220;. Cornell researchers collaborated with Samsung on this project. The technique was initially seen as a design for &#8220;augmented reality\u00a0glasses&#8221; where saving space and weight is a priority.<\/p>\n<p>The above thumbnail is from an article on the MDPI website title &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2073-4352\/9\/10\/515\">Miniaturized Metalens Based Optical Tweezers on Liquid Crystal Droplets for Lab-on-a-Chip Optical Motors<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>While these articles discuss experimental ideas, the result may well be common place articles in a decade or two and history in another half century. Even forty years ago, the late <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/42.jpg\">Douglas Adams<\/a> in his &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy\">The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy<\/a>&#8221; predicted a pocket sized electronic encyclopedia. Today, such ereaders \u00a0are common place containing hundreds of books (my iPod Touch is an example).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. Wouldn&#8217;t it be wonderful if a zoom lens was invented with the zoom controlled by electricity? Smartphone could off these tiny marvels and a light finger motion could shift the tiny zoom lens&#8217;s focal length. PHSC member and friend &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/look-ma-no-hands\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[2111,3714,441,3715,3713,631],"class_list":["post-20815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-adams","tag-cornell","tag-electric","tag-get-fuzzy","tag-sansung","tag-zoom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20818,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20815\/revisions\/20818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}