Engineers from the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences combined the technology of creating artificial muscles and flat contact lenses and got a new electronic lens that allows you to take photos of objects as close to how the human eye sees them. This is stated in a message on the university website.

The lens consists of a thin, transparent dielectric elastomer to which artificial muscles are attached. Together, the lens and muscle have a thickness of only 30 microns, the diameter of the device is about 1 cm.

With tiny nanostructures, the new lens focuses and can collect the entire spectrum of visible light at one point. This allows her to change focus in real time - similar to how the human eye does it.

In some aspects, the new lens surpasses its natural prototype - for example, it can make corrections for astigmatism and image bias, which is inaccessible to the human eye.

The authors of the study note: the likelihood that new lenses will appear in consumer cameras and gadgets in the near future is extremely small - most likely, up to ten years will pass before the development is introduced.

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