Colorblind users may also want to check out another, free app that offers real-time imaging called Chromatic Glass.

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And then this is all enabled in particular by a new class of IT-centric real-time imaging called microseismic monitoring.

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One manifestation is precision steerable drilling using real-time microseismic imaging and continuous data acquisition enabling companies to weave through meandering hydrocarbon-rich seams.

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Called ARGUS-IS (both named after the mythological eye guy and an acronym for Autonomous Real-time Ground Ubiquitous Surveillance - Imaging System) this guy straps a 1.8 gigapixel camera to the bottom of an A-160T Hummingbird robot helicopter.

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Adrian Cheng invented a powerful non-invasive, high-speed microscope technology for imaging the activity of thousands of cells in the brain simultaneously, in real time, offering a view of neural circuits at work.

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