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Researchers at the VTT Technical Research Centre in Finland have developed an optical accessory that can turn an ordinary camera phone into a microscope.

To use the device, a user simply needs to attach it in front of a camera phone’s existing lens. The plastic lens on the microscope then acts to magnify any object placed in front of it, while a number of LEDs sunk into the outer edge of the lens illuminate the object from different angles.

The microscopic accessory itself has a field of view of 2mm x 3mm, a depth of field of between 0.05 to 0.1mm and a resolution between 6-10 microns.

The microscope’s developers believe that it will find numerous uses imaging a variety of surfaces and structures that could then be forwarded as MMS messages.

A new Finnish start-up called KeepLoop (Tampere, Finland) is already exploring the commercial potential of the invention, and the first industrial and consumer models will be released early this year.

– By Dave Wilson, Senior Editor, Vision Systems Design

You can now add this little device and turn your iphone into a microscope

Panoramic video product and software company GoPano introduced 360 degree video to the masses with their iPhone app and attachable lens. Experimental indie rock group Tanlines tapped into this technology for the music video for “Brothers” off their upcoming album, Mixed Emotions. Though their use of an interactive, 360 video is simple, the result is mind-blowing.

The video takes place in an apartment living room with guitarist/vocalist Eric Emm hanging out on a couch in jeans and socks. As he moves about, answering the door for bandmate Jesse Cohen, the viewer is invited to follow them around the room (by clicking and dragging the mouse) as they mess with the guitar, piano and a set of drums.

The plot line is simple, but play around with shifting the perspective — try the wide-shot too — and it completely transforms what would be an average concept.

The Brooklyn-based duo’s funky electronics and pop beats are the kicker. You’ll catch yourself doing one of those awkward chair dances because their music is just that damn good.

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As an expected early March reveal for the third-generation iPad 3 approaches, details are leaking from Chinese sources. New photos detail what is claimed to be the logic board for an iPad 3, sporting an “A5X” processor. Pictures of the rear casing show a more tapered rear panel with what appears to be a lens opening similar to that of the iPhone 4S, suggesting a possible 8MP rear camera. These new leaks support earlier rumors that the iPad 3 would get an improved dual-core processor and a serious bump in camera resolution.

MacRumors published an image discovered on a Chinese forum post of a purported iPad 3 logic board. The board sports a processor labelled “A5X,” suggesting that it’s a revision of the current dual-core A5 processor used in the iPad 2 and iPhone 4S. Several signs pointed to the possibility that Apple could move to a quad-core design for its next-gen mobile processor, and earlier rumors suggested this was so. However, a recent report from The Verge indicated that the processor would retain the same dual-core processor with improved Imagination Technologies GPU cores. An “A5X” (A5 eXtreme?) would fit in with that description.

The A5 is no slouch in general processing, but improved graphics processing would be especially useful if the iPad 3 contains a 2048 x 1536 pixel “Retina” display. Such a display has long been predicted, and has been all but confirmed by a leak of upcoming display parts sporting doubled linear resolution last week. Whatever other improvements an iPad 3 might have, a Retina display seems a sure bet.

MacRumors also recently highlighted images of the purported rear unibody enclosure of the iPad 3 published by NextMedia, a Taiwanese news source that publishes the Apple Daily tabloid. While NextMedia is not considered a highly reliable rumor source, the images are similar to others of the same purported iPad 3 parts that have leaked out of China.

In particular, the newer images reveal a more gradual taper of the rear of the iPad compared to the iPad 2, as well as a much larger lens opening for the rear-facing camera. Hiding behind that larger lens opening is what looks to be a camera module similar to that of the iPhone 4S. An earlier rumor suggested that the updated iPad would get camera hardware comparable to that of the iPhone 4S, with a 720p front-facing “FaceTime HD” camera, and an 8MP rear-facing camera. These images seem to support that notion, though we’re not sure such expensive parts will make it into a $499 device. Consider us cautiously optimistic that this rumor is true.

The next iPad hardware revision is expected to be announced during a special media event on or around March 7.

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Further reading

• [iPad&相关]晒下iPad3主板，期待A6处理器的果粉要失望了 (bbs.weiphone.com)
• 新iPad傳3/7開賣 心臟變四核心 鏡頭加大 (tw.nextmedia.com)
• Next-gen iPads with LTE and an 8″ version in testing? Magic WSJ-ball says “yes” (arstechnica.com)

Chinese source leaked that the iPad3 may just have the camera power we all asked for

If the iPad 3, which is coming out soon, gets a iPhone like camera, that would simply be awesome.