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Color Blindness
One of my best friends has a color vision deficiency, or "color blindness," as it is also known. Being as that we are best of friends, I have asked him on several occasions to describe what he sees...
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The Bucha Effect
I posted an article about the Purkinje Effect a while ago – I wanted to share another light-related physiological effect, because they're so fascinating! Now obviously I have a high amount of...
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British Doctors Tell Age-Related Macular Degernation to Suck It
Have you ever heard of age-related macular degeneration, or AMD? Do you suffer from AMD? It is a common form of blindness, and as you get older (hence the age related part), your macula starts to...
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TAKE THAT, Retina! Fovea THIS!
Hey, you wanna see the inside of my eye? No, really. The inside of my eye. I'M SERIOUS! Check it out: That's the freaking inside of my right eye – you're looking at my right retina, optic nerve,...
View ArticleTED Talks: Beau Lotto, The Eyes, and The Power of Reality
Have you ever heard of the TED Talks? TED Talks are lectures from remarkable people in the world, and they're all free. The best thing about the TED talks is that not only are they free (like all...
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Tanya Vlach Wants to Grow A Bionic Eye
Tanya Vlach is looking for someone to help her invent a "bionic" eye that has a camera inside. Watch this: Tanya is looking for donors and engineers to help her create an experimental project...
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Bionic Contact Lenses?
Ok, now if I can just figure out how to put my finger that close to my eyeball, I'm golden! Yeah. I have never had a contact lens in my eye. Check this out – a bionic contact lens! Researchers at...
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What Exactly are Eye Floaters?
"I'll look over there!" "I'll move over HERE!" "You got an answer for everything." So. Have you ever been looking at a book, the sky, or anything really, and seen what most people call "eye...
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Second Sight Medical Products Delivers a Kick to the Giftbag for Retinitis...
This is very exciting news for the realm of artificial vision. I have someone I look up to that suffers from Retinitis Pigmentosa, and it sucks to see this degenerative disease affect this man's...
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How Well Do YOU Know Light? Take Our Quiz, Come Find OUT! COME ON!
So, how well DO you know Light? Are you an expert? Just practicing? Are you a know-it-all? Are you a poser?! (Wow, it's not all THAT serious…) Take the JimOnLight.com Quiz! How Well Do You Know Light?...
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Some Guy Named Jake and His Live Eye Surgery! [Graphic, So, Um, FYI]
There's a video on Vimeo posted by a user named JakeLV426. Jake had eye surgery. Jake got the video of his eye surgery! For all of you out there who think this is as freaking cool as I do, check it...
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This Week’s Gobo-A-Day from InLight Gobos
You know, there is one thing that I don’t believe that our industry can live without — gobos. It’s not practical to have a projector for every logo you want to project, and it’s not vyable to think...
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YEAH! Avolites’ Ai Media Servers Solely Distributed in America by Group One!
It’s official and awesome. Group One, the exclusive Avolites distributor in America, is now going to be distributing the Ai Media Server series of products for Avolites! This is thrilling and pretty...
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PLSN Hometown Heroes — Who’s YOUR Hero?
It is DEFINITELY that time again, folks! Time for the PLSN Hometown Heroes nominations! http://plsn.com/lighting-hometown-heroes-nominations.html From the Hometown Heroes nomination form website: Each...
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Things I’ve Learned in Lighting
Sometimes our lighting world feels like this — task lists and spreadsheets and travel schedules and light plots, oh my! I’ve been traveling a lot. A lot, a lot. I seem to never be able to keep up...
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Choreographed Meteor Showers. For Real.
Ok, meteor showers, on demand, from a satellite, developed by a company in Japan. Yes, I do believe it’s happening. A company out of a small office in Japan is putting together something that will...
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How Lasers Actually Work
I’ve been digging lately, looking for the next thing to wow my photon brain… there’s been some LED developments and some other manufacturing-based tech dev that has been cool, but when you see...
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Photographing High-Speed Water Droplet Impacts | JimOnLight
This sounds a little nutty if you’re just blowing by it in my Twitter feed, but this is actually pretty cool. Make Magazine (via Hacked Gadgets, which you need to check out) writer Ted Kinsman posted...
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Avolites Releases Titan Version 10!
Ladies and gentlemen, it’s dropped! Titan v10 is now available for download: http://www.avolites.com/software/latest-version FARMINGDALE, New York – June 28, 2016 — Avolites’ much anticipated Titan...
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Installing Avolites Titan V10, plus Features!
Just a quick post, two videos — one for helping you install Avolites Titan V10 onto your desk/laptop/etcetera, and a video of the feature set of V10, which I’m pretty freaking excited about installing!...
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