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Collaboration to enhance electronic surveillance systems (DSTO - Defence Science & Technology Organisation)

Edit Public Technologies 14 Jun 2016
(Source. DSTO - Defence Science & Technology Organisation) ... The company will utilise the innovative light cone direction finder, developed by DST, to enhance the capability of its electronic support measures system ... The light-cone direction finder improves the localisation of multiple radio signals and the rejection of spurious signals in a complex electromagnetic environment and is significantly superior to current systems....

Midnight Blue: A New System for Color Vision (California Institute of Technology)

Edit Public Technologies 14 Apr 2016
In humans, vision is enabled by two types of light-sensitive photoreceptor cells called rods and cones ... Color vision, on the other hand, is enabled by cones, which are active in bright light ... 'In really dim light, our cones don't receive enough photons to work, but they continue to emit a low-level baseline signal to the rest of the retina that is independent of light,' he explains....

New Gene Therapy Lights up Vision

Edit Huffington Post 15 Mar 2016
We all need light to see, but now a new gene therapy is restoring sight to those with vision problems by figuratively lighting up their vision ... The retina is composed of millions of cells, some called rods and cones for their distinctive shapes, whose purpose is to sense light ... When these proteins malfunction, the rods and cones in the retina are slowly lost, and with them, the ability to detect light....

Researchers are calling for volunteers to help develop a test for colour blindness (University of Bradford)

Edit Public Technologies 11 Mar 2016
There are three types of cones sensitive to long- (red), middle- (green) and short-wavelength (blue) light. These cones respond to light in the world around us, and by adding and subtracting all the signals that they produce we get our wide spectrum of colour vision ... 'One of the outcomes of our recent work has been the discovery that red and green cones respond in very different ways to a flash of light....

The new C-Class Cabriolet: Unlimited opening times (Daimler AG)

Edit Public Technologies 29 Feb 2016
Light and safe bodyshell ... The multiplicity of assistance systems also includes a Parking Assist for semi-automated parking; a 360° camera for assistance during parking and manoeuvring; a camera and navigation-based Traffic Sign Assist with wrong-way warning function as well as Adaptive Highbeam Assist Plus, which allows continuous high beam by selectively blanking out other vehicles from the high-beam light cone....

Snake photoreceptor evolution [Evolution]>

Edit PNAS 12 Jan 2016
Vertebrate retinas are generally composed of rod (dim-light) and cone (bright-light) photoreceptors with distinct morphologies that evolved as adaptations to nocturnal/crepuscular and diurnal light environments. Over 70 years ago, the “transmutation” theory was proposed to explain some of the rare exceptions in which a photoreceptor type is missing, suggesting that... ....

The hotels offering touch of luxury for the smartphone generation

Edit South China Morning Post 10 Jan 2016
At the Peninsula Tokyo, guests entering the hotel, situated in the city’s plush Marunouchi district, are greeted by The Void, a bizarre collection of 24 “light cones” made from 1,313 crystal LED bulbs that stretch upwards in darkness to the hotel’s 24th floor ... You can switch on a steam-proof Sharp TV or dim the lights while sitting in the bath ......

8 Reasons We Should Care About Light

Edit Huffington Post 31 Dec 2015
Fireworks, a beautiful example of visible light, are often used to celebrate the start of the New Year ... Light comes in many forms ... The retinas in the back of our eyes contain millions of light-sensitive nerve cells called "rods" and "cones". The rods deal with the brightness of light, while cones tackle color in three flavors ... Both rods and cones have chemicals that change when they are hit by light ... Light can, however, travel slower....

Evolutionary transformation of rod photoreceptors in the all-cone retina of a diurnal garter snake

Edit PNAS 29 Dec 2015
Vertebrate retinas are generally composed of rod (dim-light) and cone (bright-light) photoreceptors with distinct morphologies that evolved as adaptations to nocturnal/crepuscular and diurnal light environments ... Although studies have shown support for this theory in nocturnal geckos, the origins of all-cone retinas, such as those found in diurnal colubrid snakes, remain a mystery....

When Your First Day on a Job Is the Most Fun You've Ever Had, You've ...

Edit Huffington Post 17 Dec 2015
If someone had handed him a neon light, it would have glowed ... just the three of us, two other airport guys standing at the ready with the rolling staircase and a guy with two lights to signal the plane in ... The plane was rolling towards us now, the ground controller pulling it towards him by swinging the two lighted cones backwards past his ears ... "Curt! Curt!" My flash unit was burning hot from the constant chain of explosions of light....

Opel IntelliLux LED® Matrix Light Reduces Risk of Wildlife Accidents (Adam Opel GmbH)

Edit Public Technologies 12 Dec 2015
This allows traversing game to be noticed before the animals would appear in the light cone of normal headlights ... Adaptive LED matrix light. Consisting of 16 LED segments - eight on each side of the vehicle - the new matrix system switches the high beam on as soon as the vehicle exits an urban area and then automatically and constantly adapts both the length and shape of the light cone for every traffic situation....

STAY SAFE THIS WINTER WITH VAUXHALL’S INTELLILUX LED MATRIX HEADLIGHTS (Vauxhall Motors Limited)

Edit Public Technologies 08 Dec 2015
This allows carriage way hazards including people, other vehicles and animals to be noticed before they appear in the light cone of normal headlights ... Consisting of 16 LED segments, eight on each side of the vehicle, the new matrix system switches the high beam on as soon as the vehicle exits an urban area and then automatically and constantly adapts both the length and shape of the light cone for every traffic situation....

Glare-Free High-Beam Light Gives Drivers More Response Time When It Really Counts more (Hella KGaA ...

Edit Public Technologies 12 Nov 2015
Intelligent LED headlamps with glare-free high-beam light improve safety when driving at night. This is the outcome of a study conducted by the Technical University of Gießen by order of the Light.Sight.Safety Initiative ... The system then forms dark tunnel areas within the high-beam light cone to dynamically 'single out' or 'exclude' vehicles in real time....
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