technology

The study »Innovation Indicator 2025« presents a sober picture of Germany’s innovation landscape. Germany remains in the upper mid-range but is under increasing pressure. Countries with clear strategic priorities, such as Switzerland, Denmark or Finland, perform significantly better. Germany, by contrast, struggles to build on its former strengths in value creation, digitalization and high-tech. Notably, a great deal of knowledge is generated in this country, but too little of it successfully reaches the market. ...

The study “Resolution limit of the eye: how many pixels can we see?” by Maliha Ashraf (University of Cambridge), Alexandre Chapiro (Meta) and Rafał Mantiuk (University of Cambridge) provides new insights into the limits of our vision. The research team measured how many pixels the human eye can actually distinguish and arrived at about 94 pixels per degree at the center of the visual field. The paper shows that current 4K displays already practically exhaust our visual acuity, and higher resolutions are unlikely to look noticeably better. That means 8K TV should have lost much of its relevance. ...