From Defense Talk:
LONDON, UK: Frontline troops will be able to see better in the dark using revolutionary new optical technology that’s modeled on the eye of a tiny parasitic fly.
Engineers at BAE Systems have developed the new ‘bug eye’ technology following several months of research examining the eye mechanisms of the Xenos peckii – a parasitic fly that lives on a wasp. The tiny bug has 50 separate lenses in each eye. Each lens produces an individual image, which are meshed together to form a single large panoramic image in its brain.
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My Comment: This is a small but significant improvement over existing night vision technology. It was almost 10 years ago that I had the chance to look through night vision goggles .... and I was impressed then .... I can only imagine now.