Their dome-shaped eyes are packed with multiple tiny eye elements topped with corneal lenses.
"The need for a tiny insect eye to gather lots of light and bring images into sharp focus on the receptors may explain the advantage of the eyes that deliver images in chunks instead of points, " says co-researcher Dr Elke Buschbeck.
Sure, people might notice the tiny screen near your eye sparkling when they look closely.
Or, with Google's much-anticipated Glass connected headset, you'll glance up at a tiny screen above your eye.
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You can stare at Alamosaurus, with its tiny teeth, virtually eye to eye, after you have seen it, on the lower level, towering above you.
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The light from the lines is directed to the appropriate eye using either tiny lenses or diffraction gratings over each pixel (the dots of which the picture is composed).
Soon the raw, rusty work began to attract the eye of the then tiny design community in London.
But because these savings came not from giant plants but in zillions of tiny pieces imperceptible to the untrained eye, energy efficiency gets little respect.
It works like this: thread by thread technicians apply the synthetic, polyester-based extensions to each tiny lash (up to 120 an eye) leaving clients the look of full eye-make up.
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The samples were contained in petri dishes and the bacteria multiplied within 48 hours, so much so that they became visible to the naked eye as 300 to 400 tiny dots, Godard said.
But by 1994, he says he was growing excited about the opportunities to be had at small biotechnology companies, and his eye fell on Proscript , a tiny, Cambridge, Mass.
The skeletons of brittlestars, which are sea creatures related to starfish and sea urchins, contain thousands of tiny lenses that collectively form a single, distributed eye.
Its hallmark is yellowish deposits of debris called drusen that grow at the back of the eye, damaging the macula, the tiny but crucial section of the retina responsible for central vision.
Huge Himalayan vultures wheel eye-level with the road, while tiny tits inhabit a range of vegetation, from conifers and cedars to broadleaved oaks and rhododendrons.
Doctors began the operation by making three tiny incisions in the white part of the patient's eye.
Like a little ant farm, we'd have some God's eye view of the comings and goings of our tiny little un-selves.
After all, it has a habit of making giant steps from the tiniest of changes - so tiny in this case, it was invisible to the human eye.
Neurotech Pharmaceuticals is testing a tiny polymer capsule that is implanted in the back of the eye and continuously pumps out a nourishing protein for six months or longer.
Fishman had his eye on the French market, and offered to buy tiny Sodexho.
Scientists have spent time working out how to manufacture tiny, airtight boxes that can shield implants when they are in the eye.
Magnetic, nonradioactive nanoparticles (a tiny fraction of the thickness of a human hair and invisible to the human eye) are injected into the subject, where they bind only to known breast cancer cells within the body.
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The LEXID (Lobster Eye X-ray Imaging Device) functions by "radiating objects with tiny amounts of X-ray energy, " subsequently allowing its user to see behind steel, wood or concrete.
Normal vision is based on more than one hundred million receptors in each eye, but it is impossible to squeeze that many electrodes into a tiny device that has to lay on the retina, said John Wyatt, a professor in the department of electrical engineering at MIT who has been working on a retinal prosthesis since 1988.
With all the hype surrounding this tiny startup, it feels like the hokeyness of a wrist computer has all but evaporated in the public's eye.
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