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The future of Optical Sensors
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- 2016first covered
- 6 Feb 2026latest update
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- New Chinese ghost satellites see your face from spaceSecurity and privacy
- New sensors listen with light to prevent European submarine cable sabotageEarth and energy
- China unveils new satellite that’s 5x faster than Musk’s existing Starlink systemConnected society
- Researchers use holograms to create new unhackable optical encryption systemSecurity and privacy
- Scientists have teleported data between two sites for the second timeSecurity and privacy
- The world’s first space factory was just deployed – in spaceIndustry and manufacturing
- NASA smashes speed records with new space to ground communications systemConnected society
- This brand new sensor can read your body’s vital signs from across the roomIndustry and manufacturing
- Synthetic diamonds could help extend the Moore’s Law EraIndustry and manufacturing
- Sensors that detect Covid-19 in the air get major US military fundingBiotech and enhanced humans
- Amazing new grain sized nanocamera snaps amazing hi def imagesIndustry and manufacturing
- Samsung just built the world’s highest resolution 200MP camera sensorIndustry and manufacturing
- Researchers eavesdrop on conversations remotely using lightbulbsSecurity and privacy
- Cameras that see round corners just got a major megapixel upgradeEarth and energy
- This new powerful terahertz camera uses lasers and radiation to see inside objectsEarth and energy
- 3D Printing with sound, new tech opens door to printed cosmetics, food, and drugsIndustry and manufacturing
- Russian researchers used a common inkjet printer to print advanced Nano-SensorsIndustry and manufacturing
- Shooting lasers at drones helps DARPA keep them airborne foreverEarth and energy
- New Mantis Shrimp inspired camera will make self-driving cars saferTransport and mobility
- New glasses will beam augmented and virtual reality directly into your eyesVirtual worlds
- Windows are the perfect lens-less cameras for AI and VR headsetsAI and intelligence
- Scientists have 3D printed the world’s first physical neural networkAI and intelligence
- Harvard revolutionises camera technology, invents MetalenseIndustry and manufacturing
- MIT researchers use AI and a smartphone to see round cornersAI and intelligence
- Lockheed’s new camera puts a space telescope in your pocketIndustry and manufacturing
- Euclideon unveils the world’s first multi-user hologram tableVirtual worlds
- New all seeing cameras will revolutionise computer vision as we know itAI and intelligence
- Facebook launches itself into developing brain reading techConnected society
- Scientists 3D print an Eagle eye camera that’s smaller than a human hairIndustry and manufacturing
- New Chinese camera can see round cornersIndustry and manufacturing
- New breakthrough will give prosthetic limbs a human sense of touchRobotics
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