lens
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“They had a finite amount of resources, and they took this cinematic film lens or film camera film and shot these stills,” Maea said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
Those could potentially include near- and far-sightedness and astigmatism, a common condition caused by an irregularly shaped cornea or lens.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2026
There are now tiny blades around the lens that can open and close to control the light coming in, like a traditional camera.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
It's a close up, emotional, insider's view, not a long lens and a headline.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
At one of these ends there was an enormous camera on wheels, and a whole army of Oompa-Loompas was clustering around it, oiling its joints and adjusting its knobs and polishing its great glass lens.
From "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald Dahl
For the new experiments, the researchers built specialized platinum "contact lenses" designed to act as molds for the desired corneal shape.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2026
Around the corner, a humming high-tech machine presses glass into lenses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
Two months in, the rose-colored lenses are especially obfuscating.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026
One of the nice things is, like Meta's Quest 3, it has flat "pancake" lenses allowing you to see clearly when you put the headset on.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
The transmission of hereditary traits was just one instance of information flow—but if you looked deeply, squinting your conceptual lenses, it was easy to imagine information moving pervasively through the entire living world.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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