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Optics Audiobooks

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    SuperSight

    What Augmented Reality Means for Our Lives, Our Work, and the Way We Imagine the Future

    by David Rose ...
    Narrated by Simon Mattacks ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 39 min

    For thousands of years, human vision has been largely unchanged by evolution.We’re about to get a software update.Today, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Snap, Samsung, and a host of startups are racing to radically change the way we see. The building blocks are already falling into place: cloud computing and 5G networks, AI computer vision algorithms, smart glasses and VR headsets, and mixed ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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    How the Laser Happened

    Adventures of a Scientist

    by Charles H. Townes ...
    Narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 32 min

    In How the Laser Happened, Nobel laureate Charles Townes provides a highly personal look at some of the leading events in twentieth-century physics. Townes was inventor of the maser, of which the laser is one example; an originator of spectroscopy using microwaves; and a pioneer in the study of gas clouds in galaxies and around stars. Throughout his career he has also been deeply engaged with ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    My Robot Gets Me

    How Social Design Can Make New Products More Human

    by Carla Diana ...
    Narrated by Justis Bolding ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 5 min

    Your relationships with your "smart" products are about to get a lot more personal.Think how commonplace it is now for people to ask Siri for the weather forecast, deploy Roomba to clean their homes, or summon Alexa to turn on the lights. The "smart home" market will reach well over $100 billion in the next five years on the promise of products that are truly integrated with our cooking, cleaning, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    Brilliant

    The Evolution of Artificial Light

    by Jane Brox ...
    Narrated by Randye Kaye ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 15 min

    Brilliant, reminiscent of Lewis Hyde's The Gift in its reach and of Timothy Egan's The Worst Hard Time in its haunting evocation of human lives, offers a sweeping view of a surprisingly revealing aspect of human history—from the stone lamps of the Pleistocene to the LEDs embedded in fabrics of the future.Brox plumbs the class implications of light—who had it, who didn't—through the many centuries ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    Invisibility

    The History and Science of How Not to Be Seen

    by Gregory J. Gbur ...
    Narrated by Derek Dysart ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 58 min

    A lively exploration of how invisibility has gone from science fiction to factIs it possible for something or someone to be made invisible? This question, which has intrigued authors of science fiction for over a century, has become a headline-grabbing topic of scientific research.In this book, science writer and optical physicist Gregory J. Gbur traces the science of invisibility from its sci-fi ... Read more

    $19.99 USD