This is the plant that changes in sunlight from Kermit green to a dusky pink, creating optical wonders.
Today at PMA, Kodak announced the Easyshare Z1012IS, which is a 10-megapixel, 12x optical zoom wonder with OIS.
Raj Singh, cofounder of recent optical networking wonders like Cerent (bought by Cisco Cisco in August 1999 for $7.4 billion), Siara Networks (acquired by Redback Networks for $4.3 billion), and Xros (bought by Nortel Networks for $3.25 billion), is betting on the continuing hunger for these new startups.
"By pulling together these far-flung objects in new juxtapositions," said Ms. Terpak, curator of the Getty's photographic and optical devices collections, "the wonder cabinets helped people cope with the sudden burst of information".
This paper presents the architecture of a Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) optical packet network, called WONDER, that was designed and prototyped in the PhotonLab at Politecnico di Torino, Italy.
They readily acknowledge that today's solid-core optical telecommunications fibers are wonders by any standard.
And who can fail to be bored blind (oh, God, I hope she doesn't take this as an attack on her own optical disability!) I, for one, wonder why she chose to take on last Sunday's "Family Guy" as an attack on her little boy, Trig, who has Down's Syndrome.
The main character in Optical Allusions is Wrinkles the Wonder Brain, a lab technician for the Graeae Sisters from the Perseus legend.
"It might seem obvious that 'optional' is a misprint for 'optical', but since it is distinctly puzzling how the new purchaser is expected to know HOW to remove a DRIVE from the computer (does it perhaps mean remove any old disks that might be IN the internal optical drive?) one is left wondering whether it really is a misprint after all".
In their recently published book, "Actual Innocence" (with Jim Dwyer, Doubleday), they boast that "DNA testing is to justice what the telescope is for the stars: not a lesson in biochemistry, not a display of the wonders of magnifying optical glass, but a way of seeing things as they really are.
