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Your Smartphone Camera Could Get a Big Upgrade With This Tech

This new under-display face unlock tech for Android does what Apple couldn’t

Metalenz’s new face scan tech lives under the phone display and doesn’t need ugly cutouts

Android phones could get this impressive under-display face unlock tech pretty soon

This Company Has Figured Out a Way to Make Face ID Invisible

Metalenz of the US takes the lead in metalens: “Strong intellectual property barriers”

Android phones could soon get a face unlock solution that rivals Apple FaceID

Facial authentication on Android is about to get much better

Metasurfaces Hit Mass Production: Cheap FaceID For Android, 3D Sensing

How Metasurface Optics Are Revolutionizing Facial Recognition

From Capasso lab to your living room

The Weird and Wacky Gadgets We Saw at MWC 2025

Metasurfaces break through: turning speculation into reality

This Could Kill The iPhone Notch, Bring Cheap FaceID To Android, And Medical Apps To Your Camera

Face ID for Android phones? Here it comes, says Boston startup.

Your next Android phone could leave iPhone’s Face ID in the dust

Your next Samsung Galaxy phone could have Face ID-beating facial recognition tech if Metalenz’s claims hold up

This Harvard startup may soon be responsible for your phone’s most-used security feature

Polar ID Is the Face ID Rival for Android Phones, and Could Even Beat Apple

Get ready to be submerged by the new optics revolution – An interview with Metalenz

Looking beyond the incremental: Reimagining optical devices

Podcast: Metasurfaces simplify optical sensing systems

Metalenz partners up to commercialize 3D facial recognition locks and payment kiosks

Metalenz Pioneers High Volume Semiconductor Foundry-Based Lens Manufacturing

Photonics innovators continue to drive XR hardware

Metalenses Scale Up to Target the Market for Small Optics

Staking a claim on the next best thing since glass: Entrepreneurs and the metalens moment

All Things Photonics Podcast: THE ASCENSION OF META-OPTICS — WITH ROB DEVLIN

Metalenz ships millions of its tiny cameras and powers up with $30M B round

A matter of vision

The Future Of Metasurface Optics — A Q&A With Metalenz CEO Robert Devlin

Metasurfaces Come to Market

World’s First Metasurface for Consumer Electronics Makes Commercial Debut

World’s First Printable Optical Metasurface For Vision, 3D Sensing, LIDAR Now Shipping In Consumer Products

Cybernews Interview with Co-Founder and CEO Rob Devlin

The Nanotechnology Revolution Is Here—We Just Haven’t Noticed Yet

Metalenz unveils PolarEyes sensors that are 1,000 times smaller than a human hair

Metalenz PolarEyes upgrades digital sensing with polarized light

Smartphone Cameras Might Soon Capture Polarization Data

This Flat Lens Technology Could Eliminate Phone Screen Notches and Rear Camera Bumps

For Better AR Cameras, Swap Plastic Lenses for Silicon Chips

These Materials Could Make Science Fiction a Reality