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Graphene Optical Lens a Billionth of a Meter Thick Breaks the Diffraction Limit (gizmag.com)
Zothecula writes: With the development of photonic chips and nano-optics, the old ground glass lenses can't keep up in the race toward miniaturization. In the search for a suitable replacement, a team from the Swinburne University of Technology has developed a graphene microlens one billionth of a meter thick that can take sharper images of objects the size of a single bacterium and opens the door to improved mobile phones, nanosatellites, and computers.
No, we have awesome technology ... but if I got excited over every hardware advancement on the front page of Slashdot which was going to completely change some common technology with 5 years ... well, I'd be living in a perpetual state of disappointment.
Technology advances ... getting breathless over all of the things which might be the next big thing, sooner or later you realize there's an awful lot of stuff which doesn't pan out.
If even a quarter of the breakthroughs in Lithium batteries we've seen on Slashdot had ever happened, I'd have a cell phone with a two month battery life.
So you'll excuse me if I've stopped getting excited about things which aren't in production yet, because the difference between a cool thing in a lab and something which is actually going to trickle down to the consumer can be significant.
Because "opens the door to improved mobile phones, nanosatellites, and computers" is a long way from being true.
So, yeah ... wonderment and awe tends to be a casualty of enough years in the tech industry. Film at 11.
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Totally agree, although I was being comical, I was also serious. As an individual who is required to have a colonoscopy every 2 yrs, this would be nice alternative. Also the smaller size would translate to less chance of the pills getting stuck in the small or large intestine, hopefully.