Liquid Lens Can Magnify at the Flick of a Switch

An anonymous reader writes "German engineers have designed the first liquid camera lens with no moving parts that provides two levels of zoom. 'Liquid lenses bend light using the curved boundary between watery and oily liquids. When the two liquids are held in the right container, the boundary between them can be made to curve in a way that focuses light simply by applying a voltage. Liquid lenses have attracted much attention because they are potentially smaller than conventional optics and cheaper to build. Samsung has already built them into some cellphones.'"

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Naber porn

[jrwr00]

Cool! now i can have a smaller cam to spy on my nabers :)

Prior Art

[Anonymous Coward]

Back in high school, I sat about 5 desks away from the board. My glasses had broken and out of fear, I never told my parents. How did I manage without em? I cried! Kinda. I would let my eyes wet and squint a little so that I could see the board clearly. Of course it only lasts a few seconds and I would have to readjust the amount of liquid and squinting.

If you think that's ridiculous, then how's this: I would take lense (that had broken long ago from the frame [frame was broken too]) and cup it around my eye and put my hand over it and discreetly viewed through it, without anyone noticing. I would look like I'm just thinking hard or something

And you know how the thing with duct tape goes. after my 4th pair of glasses, and when i started driving, I had to duct tape it together. But sometimes when I ran out of tape I would have to take the lens out and put it between my brow and area under my eye, and squeeze it together to hold it in place..looking like a pirate. Anyone else done that before?

from the summary

[mrcdeckard]

this:

"German engineers have designed the first liquid camera lens

and this:

Samsung has already built them into some cellphones.'"

i'm not a grammar nazi, but 180 degree contradiction makes the whole summary meaningless. . .

mr c