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Nancy D. Lamontagne, Managing Editor

You’ve just finished drinking your favorite soda, but before you recycle the can, imagine that it has a button allowing you to view a music video. Researchers led by Dr. Roel Vertegaal at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, have designed just such a prototype. Image courtesy of Queens University. The device simulates a display using an image projected onto a can-shaped object. The research was inspired by Dynabook, a visionary cardboard model of a laptop that Alan Kay created in 1968 after seeing an LCD screen in a laboratory. The Queens University researchers named their...Read full article

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    Published: October 2008
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    In optics, an image is the reconstruction of light rays from a source or object when light from that source or object is passed through a system of optics and onto an image forming plane. Light rays passing through an optical system tend to either converge (real image) or diverge (virtual image) to a plane (also called the image plane) in which a visual reproduction of the object is formed. This reconstructed pictorial representation of the object is called an image.
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    Referring to the bandwidth and spectrum location of the signal produced by television or radar scanning.
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