Scientists using special laser technology have crafted a pair of mini-spectacles (2 mm) and placed them on the head of a housefly.
This photograph is part of a science photo exhibit being held in Munich, Germany from March 20 to 25.
[Source: Jiji via Yahoo! Japan]
UPDATE 29/Mar/2006: Needcoffee.com posted a nice story about the origins of this photo.
UPDATE 31/Mar/2006: An old Micreon press release explains the rest.
LP
So, how does the fly get correction for its many other eyes? :-)
[]Martijn
How did they ever managed to print that tiny little logo on thin 2mm glasses?
[]Terje (the Digital Piano Man) Brooks
i want to ask this fly about her feelings?
[]Danny
I hope that is not 600k worth of tax dollars looking cool on that flies head...
[]zack
you obviously have missed the point,
[]its not that we've fashioned some fly glasses for shits and giggles. its to show how well our technology has gotten. no expense is to great for the pursuit of science!
Nick Jordan
Sunglasses? That's Fly.
[]Skyline
Photoshopped.
[]Admiral John Q. Derpington III, Esq.
"I was annoying productive people BEFORE it was cool."
[]-Hipster Fly
Lee Stevens
Once flys have 20/20 vision it will be the end of the world as we know it!
[]kelly
wonder how many toilet seats this cost the tax payers- :P
kind of neat tho- kind of gross too-
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