Your next camera phone might get a new kind of lens if researchers at the University of California at San Diego convince the cell phones makers. They have designed an 'origami lens' which will slim ...

UC San Diego engineers have devised an ultra-thin digital camera by folding up the telephoto lens into a slim component. The design, based on that of Cassegrain telescopes, bends and focuses light ...

Etc: 2 p.m. paper airplane folding and flying off the library Bridge; bring a dollar bill to learn a money fold Do you know a folder? If the only definition of the term you’re familiar with is the ...

Engineers at UC San Diego have built a powerful yet ultrathin digital camera by folding up the telephoto lens, which could lead to high-resolution miniature cameras for a variety of applications. This ...

Engineers at UC San Diego have built a powerful yet ultrathin digital camera by folding up the telephoto lens. This technology may yield lightweight, ultrathin, high resolution miniature cameras for ...

Picture-messaging phones may be about to get a whole lot more intrusive. Thanks to a novel and ultra-cheap micromotor technology, cellphone cameras should soon be able to zoom and focus with the same ...

UC San Diego engineers think they've found a route to slimmer and more capable digital camera and cameraphones with a new type of folding telephoto lens. To improve light collection yet save space, ...