In this writeup, you can see how to build a cheap compound eye system for your robot. Using 4 IR LEDs and 4 phototransistors, [oddbot] gave “Mr General” the ability to follow movement in ...

A study by AIIMS reveals that bio-enhanced curcumin, found in turmeric (haldi), effectively treats mild to moderate dry eye ...

A challenge in building digital cameras with the hemispherical, compound apposition layouts of arthropod eyes is that essential design requirements cannot be met with existing planar sensor ...

Trilobites evolved a wide variety of eye forms. Trilobites lived between 521 and 252 million years ago. They were one of the first groups of creatures to develop complex, compound eyes, where many ...

The authors propose several parameters for evaluating biomimetic curved artificial compound eyes (BCACEs), including the ...

During the age of dinosaurs, small predators with unexpectedly advanced eyes hunted in the darkness roughly 100 million years ...

protensa already had a complex visual system. Anomalocaris is another early arthropod relative with surprising optics. The marine animal had giant compound eyes, about the size of a snooker ball in ...

Each arm has a tiny eye at the tip, meaning a five-armed starfish has five eyes, while some species with more arms have even more. These molluscs have up to 200 tiny, blue eyes lining the edges of ...

The film is inspired by the costumes of folk art performers at Taiwans ceremonial festivals Adapted from the Southeast Asian folktale The Mousedeer Crosses River it integrates similar folktale ...

Yes, it's true: Carrots are great for your eyes. Carrots (and other vividly colored fruits and vegetables) are high in beta-carotene, which is a compound that your body uses to make vitamin A.