Movies and stories from the early 20th century sometimes show an elegant lady or gentleman using a magnifying glass to read a letter. Generically, a magnifying glass makes very small things appear ...

If you’re reading Hackaday, you’re probably intimately familiar with really small parts. 0201 resistors are tiny, and even smaller parts aren’t unheard of. The screws that go in your phone are ...

People with corrected vision of 20/200 or worse are legally blind. Even with magnifying glasses or special reading spectacles, they cannot read ordinary newspaper or magazine print. Some 420,000 ...

Astronomers have shown how gravitational lensing allows us to see the faintest and most distant galaxies, helping us to understand the origin of the Universe. The first gravitational lens, a ...

It’s such a shame that I didn’t know about Eye Glasses before today. Not real spectacles, of course - I’ve heard of those - but the application from Freeverse which turns the iPhone into a big, square ...

Voters can expect to find fewer polling booths and more magnifying glasses when they cast their ballot at the next federal election. The increasing trend of Australians opting to vote before the ...

The most discussed presentation at the meeting of the American Academy of Optometry in Chicago last week was Dr. William Feinbloom’s method of restoring vision to the 98% blind. Two out of five blind ...

Created more than 400 years ago, the telescope is a tool that has allowed both amateurs and scientists alike to explore the sky in much more detail than they ever could with their naked eyes. All ...