Word: lensed
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After Kok's lucrative success in slashing the production cost of CDs, he was asked by Johnson & Johnson to find similar savings in the mass production of its Vistakon line of disposable contact lenses. At the time Johnson & Johnson was manufacturing contact lenses using a system that required multiple operators and took up the space of five single-file Greyhound buses. Kok visited the firm's factory in Jacksonville, Fla., and then--on an airline napkin--sketched an invention that would manufacture the lenses in a space about half a bus long, with only a single machine operator...
For nearly four decades, Ron Galella has been America's most famous Nuisance to the Stars, the kind of photographer who could mount an entire show of nothing but pictures of famous people putting their hands up to block his lens. There are quite a few shots like that in...
AUTOFOCUS Researchers from Caltech and the University of California, San Francisco, have devised an implantable lens for cataract patients that can be recalibrated weeks after surgery. The lens contains a photosensitive compound that can be activated by a tiny beam of UV light. "We can make precise power adjustments after...
[WHY YOU ASKED IT] With optical zoom, the lens does the work; digital zoom just stretches and crops images, often with fuzzy results.
Race is a dying idea. The division of humans into races, like the Aristotelian division of matter into the four components of fire, water, earth and air, has reached the end of its useful lifetime. And like Aristotle’s view of nature, the idea of race has taken...