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BLACKPINK: Jennie and Her Cameras

Yesterday, we featured Lalisa (Lisa) Manoban and her cameras. Next up is Jennie. There are not too many pictures of her using a camera, and she seems to like to borrow from the staff when she wants to grab a shot. So...

2021-08-25

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BLACKPINK: Lisa and Her Cameras

Blackpink: The Movie just came out and some of you may be wondering just who are those four girls and what is all the fuss about. Blackpink is arguably the biggest South Korean K-pop Girl Group singers and dancers in...

2021-08-24

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Photo of Single Atom Wins the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council National Science Photography Competition

Mention of a ‘pale blue dot‘ always takes me back to the iconic picture of Earth as taken by Voyager 1 from far away in space (3.7 billion miles / 6 billion kilometers from the Sun). But the blue dot in this...

2021-07-09

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University of Ottawa Researchers Aim to Revolutionize the Lens With “Spaceplate”

A plate that compresses space, hence the "spaceplate." uOttawa researchers have experimentally demonstrated that a thin nanotechnology-based optical element can effectively compress the distance that light needs to...

2021-06-10

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Google Earth Timelapse: How Did the Earth Change From 1984 to 2020?

Google Earth allows you to see the Earth from a different perspective, one few of us get to really see unless you fly over the planet and then zoom in to a particular place. Google now has a timelapse feature to allow...

2021-04-16

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The Lenses of the Future May Not Need Movable Glass and May Instead Focus Using Heat

he smart engineers at MIT may be redefining how camera lenses could work in the future. Instead of complicated glass elements and precise micro motors to move them for focusing and zooming, the lenses of the future may...

2021-02-26

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