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5 applications of optics we totally didn’t see coming

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Feb. 1, 2013 — Call it the law of unintended application: No matter one’s objective in developing a new technology, no matter how much the technology promises to address an important, heretofore unmet need in society, somebody will come up with an entirely inane — or at least unexpected — use for it. And soon enough no one will remember it ever having any other purpose. Here are five optics- and light-based technologies that have suffered such a fate. Videophones/Webcams On April 7, 1927, Herbert Hoover, then Secretary of Commerce, demonstrated the videophone — for the...Read full article

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    Published: February 2013
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