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The imaging system developed by graduate student John Hunt and colleagues at Duke University in North Carolina has no lens and instead combines a metamaterial mask or aperture and complicated mathematics to generate an image of a scene.
BBC: Lens-less camera emerges from metamaterials work
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We believe there is no better lens through which to see the future than technology.
FORBES: Here Comes the Techonomy Conference
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First, you can rest assured that all the sides of your eyes are "dead ends" and there is no way the contact lens can be lost behind the eye.
CNN: How can I safely remove a stuck contact lens?
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The idea is that it gives much better quality shots when you zoom in compared to a normal camera phone, which matters because there is no room for a big zoom lens on a typical mobile.
CNN: Google and super-powerful phones the stars of mobile show
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Carrying an extra camera body just to avoid scrambling for another lens seems a bit silly, no?
ENGADGET: Insert Coin: Quikdraw targets lens fumblers and multiple camera packers (video)
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Each sports a 12x optical zoom lens (made by Leica, no less), though only the FZ5 (which is pictured above) gets its LCD bumped up to 1.8-inches.
ENGADGET: Panasonic's latest digicams: The Lumix DMC-FZ5, DMC-FZ4, DMC-LZ2, DMC-LZ1, and DMC-LS1
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This lens is a combination of Olympus's superb lens technology, and the spare-no-expense design process by including DSA (Dual Super Aspherical) and EDA (Extra-low Dispersion Aspherical) lenses in the lens group, for the high depictive quality equal to that of Olympus interchangeable SLR ZUIKO DIGITAL lenses.
ENGADGET: Olympus unveils Stylus XZ-10 with f/1.8-2.7 zoom, smartphone sharing app
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Nokia's Lumia 920 packs the industry's best image stabilization -- there's no questioning that -- thanks to a camera module that pairs both sensor and lens-based optical IS. The iPhone 5 also offers a notable improvement over its Apple-made predecessor on the video front, but considering that its stabilization is of the digital variety, we wouldn't expect it to top Nokia's new flagship.
ENGADGET: iPhone 5 and Nokia Lumia 920 face off with image stabilization test (hands-on video, updated with Galaxy S III and HTC One X)
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The image reflection is then focused through a lens, where it is magnified and projected onto the display, where there is virtually no space between pixels.
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