Fiber Optics

Entertainment

Ever Wonder How Cable TV Travels From Space To Your House?

2:00PM December 13, 2011 | Brent Rose

You know that cable channels make content and beam it to a satellite, but what happens then? This video is a quick look behind the curtain with one of Time Warner’s chief engineers. Who knew porn had to go through all that? [TWCable Untangled] More »


Science

Human Fibre Optics Could Give Senses To Artificial Limbs

9:00AM September 20, 2010 | Jack Loftus

DARPA, working with the Southern Methodist University Neurophotonics Research centre, is currently developing a system of wild new fibre optics that could give a sense of pressure and feeling to artificial limbs. More »


A Chandelier Fit For A Mad Scientist’s Lair

1:20PM September 15, 2010 | Christina Bonnington

No, that’s not a sentinel hanging from this family’s ceiling. It’s 100 petri dishes attached to 4500m of fibre optics… perhaps pausing for a moment before reaching down to strike at those dining below? More »


Isolated U.K. Lifeboat Community Digs Its Own Fibre Optic Channel

6:00AM August 17, 2009 | Jack Loftus

Power to the People: The Royal National Lifeboat Institution, not content with their local service provider, recently took matters into their own hands and literally dug a ditch to install their own modest 100Mbps fibre optic Internet connection. More »


Cameras

Photography Through Electrocution

2:20AM July 1, 2009 | Mark Wilson

Robert Buelteman takes electrifying photographs, but he doesn’t even use a camera. Instead, he places flowers directly onto film and shocks them with 80,000 volts. More »