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A New Coating Promises To Make Fingerprints And Grease Stains Invisible On Stainless Steel Appliances
I’ve warned my family that if I ever go missing, it’s probably because I was committed after obsessively trying to wipe fingerprints and grease stains off of our stainless steel kitchen appliances. Anyone who’s made the upgrade to the brushed metal finish knows this pain all too well, but German chemists may have finally come…
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Automated High-Speed Wire Inspector Takes 40,000 Photos Every Second
Wires, pipes and metal rails are produced at incredibly high speeds in factories. Often as fast as 10m per second, which makes doing detailed inspections as the materials are produced almost impossible. But researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Physical Measurement Techniques IPM in Freiburg, Germany, have found a way using high-speed cameras and LED…
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This Camera Array Lets You Tweak The Shot Angle In Post-Production
In the same way the Lytro camera allows photographers to tweak the focus of their shots in post-production, this multi-camera array, developed by researchers at the Fraunhofer institute, allows directors to adjust the depth of field, the aperture, and even the camera angle of a given shot after it’s been captured. The phrase ‘fix it…
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Sad Diabetics Rejoice: Tiny Chip Measures Blood Sugar Levels Through Your Tears
It’s not the first technique for measuring blood sugar levels that avoids the finger prick blood sample route, but this tiny unobtrusive chip could be the least invasive yet. It’s able to make incredibly accurate blood glucose readings from a diabetic’s tears or sweat, and then wirelessly transmit the results for easy monitoring.