Liquid Lens

Researchers have developed a new type of adaptive liquid lens that changes its focal distance when a voltage is applied. Made with an electrically responsive fluid, the lens is lightweight and could be easily manufactured for use in smartphones.

Chinese smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi has officially confirmed that its upcoming Mi Mix phone will be the world's first smartphone to use "liquid lens" technology in its camera, allowing super-fast autofocus and optical zoom changes.

The Ressence Type 3 watch's fluid-filled display gives its mechanical indications a two-dimensional, projected appearance.

A newly-developed mobile phone camera lens automatically focuses using a process similar to that of the human eye.

Researchers have used the human eye as inspiration for a new type of camera that boasts the simple lens system of the eye, but features the variable zoom capability of a single-lens reflex (SLR) camera.

Liquid pistons developed at Rensselear Polytechnic Institute could be used as pumps for lab-on-a-chip systems, adaptive lenses in future mobile phone cameras or even implantable lenses.

Samsung patent application shows a design for a liquid zoom lens that could bring better optical zoom to camera phones and other mobile devices.

August 19, 2005 Taking a leaf from Mother Nature, scientists at A*STAR’s Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) in Singapore have developed tiny

April 9, 2005: One of the factors inhibiting the mass adoption of zoom lenses in mobile phones is the size and cost of a mechanical zoom. Though Sony, Panasonic

March, 2004 Dutch-based technology giant Philips is set to show a unique variable-focus lens system that has no mechanical moving parts at this year's CeBIT Exh