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Comments on Tunable Liquid Lens Glasses For The Masses
A retired British physics professor has created simple spectacles that can be fitted to most people who need glasses - cheaply and without an optometrist. (Read
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| "The idea of using a membrane's boundary conditions with positive (or negative) pressures to build lenses (or mirrors) is nothing new. Saul Griffith won the Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for something similar (for the same target audience):
http://www.travisdeyle.com/blog/2007/08/08/novel-lens-manufacturing-technique-cheap
Also, this has been used extensively for solar concentrators... In fact, I did my Photovoltaics term paper on that topic:
http://www.travisdeyle.com/files/publications/PV_TermPaper.pdf" (Travis 12/24/2008 2:31:19 PM) |
| "My apologies to Dr. Silver -- from early patents (such as the one linked to below), it appears that his work pre-dated that of Mr. Griffith.
http://www.google.com/patents?id=SJgzAAAAEBAJ&dq=Suspension+system+for+a+flexible+optical+membrane" (Travis 12/24/2008 5:06:43 PM) |
| "There are plenty of people who could use these, and the sales cost could help fund the cost of distributing them charitably." (Sell them 3/17/2011 11:03:44 PM) |
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