We may have been on the verge of bidding all byes to the DVDs; most of us have already done so. But scientists at the University of Bristol think the eyes of a giant shrimp living on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef could be a solution to build better and high-quality DVD players still. Thumb splitter as these giant shrimps are called, have the most complex eyes in the animal kingdom i.e. they can see in 12 primary colors, four times as many as humans and therefore detect different kinds of light polarization.
The British scientists have shown this quality of the shrimps ‘using remarkable light-sensitive cells that rotate the plane of polarization in light as it travels through the eye.’ Taming this eye spectacle of operating in whole visible spectrum from near ultra-violet to infra-red, scientists wish to embed this multi-color ability into DVD players, which currently work well for one color only.
Via: Reuters/TreeHugger
