The Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO) is a global membership community of more than 18,000 influential business founders, owners, and builders, from 75 different countries, who belong to one of the ...

If your pointing device is a mouse, turn it over. The chances are you’ll see a red LED light if you’re not seriously old-school and your mouse has a ball, this light serves as the illumination ...

There is a mathematical side to optical illusions. One professor studies them in hopes of creating a safer world. Man on a roof or ladder against the wall: either way, it just doesn't seem ...

So what do you do? You follow [Simon]’s example, and build an optical pickup instead. The concept is simple. You place an LED and a phototransistor in a U-shaped channel, and place it so that ...

Keyboards with optical switches have a quicker reaction time than metal switches and have a longer life because there is no metal contact. They also eliminate the debouncing required to ensure ...

POWER MAC CENTER (PMC) last week reopened its store in TriNoma mall in Quezon City as the latest Apple Premium Partner (APP) store in the country. The TriNoma store is the seventh APP store in the ...

Optical fingerprint scanners are the oldest method of capturing and comparing fingerprints. As the name suggests, this technique relies on capturing an optical image — essentially a photograph.

The idea of optical computing—the use of photons instead of electrons to perform computational operations—has been around for decades. However, interest has resurged in recent years ...

Optical flats or test plates are polished surfaces that are used as references against the flatness of unknown surfaces for comparison. They use the property of interference to measure the flatness of ...

Optical filters are devices, typically comprised of plate glass or plastic, which selectively transmit light of different wavelengths. Filters can be broadly classified as absorptive or dichroic, ...

Optical illusions are not only a great way of testing your mind, but also finding out about yourself on a deeper level. One recently shared on TikTok by content creator Mia Yilin, who has more ...

A mouse that uses light to detect movement. Introduced in the late 1990s, optical mice superseded mechanical mice because their sealed bottom surfaces do not absorb dust and dirt. They work by ...