Tag Archives: Insect

Oppo Find X3 Pro brings microscopy to phones!

Oppo Find X3 Pro

There is always an outlier when it comes to phone innovation and we have to give it to Oppo in 2021 as it seems to have created a phone that really delivers features that seemed impossible just months ago.  The Oppo Find X3 Pro can deliver the usual 4k 30p and 60p video and up to 720p 480fps slow motion along with the common standard of 240p at 1080p.  Where the phone jumps ahead of the pack is the inclusion of a real microscopy camera module that has a ring light to boot.

The Microscope camera can deliver a mind-altering 60x microscopy range magnification that looks so good that you might think it was taken with a professional clinical microscope.   It will not be enough to show blood cells that usually require over 100x to be appreciated but it delivers detail on small insects, fibers, textures, and electronics that previously required a complicated camera setup attached to a multi-lens instrument. → Continue Reading Full Post ←

Frog Tongue Science in Slow Motion!

Frog Tongue Science

A new study released by Georgia Tech led by Alexis Noel, Mechanical Engineering Ph.D. student at that institution has revealed the hidden nature and mechanics of how frogs use their squishy and sticky tongues to eat their prey. With acceleration forces  reaching 12 Gs these prey experiment over 4x that of astronauts in a rocket leaving the atmosphere at 3 Gs.

With the use of high speed video cameras  at over 1,000fps the study was able to reveal the complex motion, eye retraction and viscous properties of the frog’s elastic tongue while catching prey.  The frog uses a mucus like substance on the tongue to generate the stickiness necessary to envelop the insect prey without ejecting them off from the brutal speed and force generated.

Congratulations to Alexis for harnessing the power of high speed to unearth the secrets of amphibian eating habits.  We hear that she is also working on feline tongues for the future including a tiger’s tongue.

You can find the full Georgia Tech Article below that goes in depth about the findings.

Full Article: http://www.rh.gatech.edu/features/eating-blink-eye

Frog Tongue Science in Slow Motion – Georgia Tech’s Action Footage from Experiments:

Reversible saliva makes frog tongues sticky Alexis Noel Georgia Tech:

Giant monkey frog captures prey: Alexis Noel Georgia Tech:

South American horned frog by Alexis Noel Georgia Tech:

Leopard frog snares cricket by Alexis Noel Georgia Tech:

Glass frog wrestles with cricket and wins by Mark Mandica Georgia Tech:

Northern leopard frog snatches prey in midair by Alexis Noel Georgia Tech: