Thin

Contact lenses get pretty thin nowadays, but they’ve got nothing on a new lens from scientists at Stanford and the University of Amsterdam. The team has created the world’s thinnest lens, measuring just three atoms thick.

New ultrathin solar cells boast a few advantages over others of their type. They're more efficient, made using more common elements, and can be inkjet-printed onto surfaces, making them light and flexible enough to power wearable electronics.

Great insights have been gathered recently into the genetic drivers underpinning obesity, but little has focused on genes related to thinness. A new study has identified one gene that seems to play a role in promoting thinness in humans and animals.

Researchers have developed a flat lens that's one one-thousandth the thickness and one one-hundredth the weight of a conventional model.

Nobody likes tangled, kinked cables, but you know what they do like? Credit card-sized devices, that they can keep in their wallet. Well, Thinium’s new Charge is a credit card-format smartphone wall charger, that does away with cables.

Chicago-based Central Standard Timing has designed a wristwatch featuring an e-ink display and built-in battery that's just 0.8mm thin.

The Keylet combines your keys and wallet into one tiny device.

Displax has developed a multi-touch "skin" that turns virtually any surface into a touchscreen display

LG confirms release of 15” OLED TV to the Korean market

Seagate has unveiled the wrold's thinnest hard drive, hoping to pave the way for a new class of reduced price slimline laptops.

Researchers at Philips have developed pixel manipulation technology that could see the whole surface of devices being painted according to the user's mood or ambient colorscapes being applied to windows, walls or rooms.

The Curio Avventura stroller is designed to fit through narrow checkouts and tight train station turnstiles