One More Month: The Public Unveiling of Blade Optics

In exactly one month, NexOptic Technology Corp., together with Spectrum Optix, are going to reveal something really special – the world’s first-ever “flattened” telescope. You don’t want to miss it.

Dear Readers,

When you make the unbelievable believable, you change perception.

But when you make the unreal real, you rewrite history.

And this one team did just that.

That is what I want to share with you today.

In this week’s letter, I am sharing an update on our biggest portfolio company.

NexOptic Technology Corp

(TSX Venture: NXO)
(OTC: NXOPF) (Frankfurt: E3O) (Berlin: E3O)

Over the past year, we have covered this incredible story – a story of a Company that literally has revolutionized a technology that hasn’t changed in over 400 years.

If you haven’t read any of the reports, you can catch up through our latest Letter on NexOptic:

NexOptic Technology Corp: A Revolutionary Flat Lens System

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In short, NexOptic Technology Corp. has an option to acquire 100% of Spectrum Optix, a Company developing technologies relating to imagery and light concentration applications.

Spectrum’s core technology, the patent-pending Blade Optics™, contains flat lenses and aims to disrupt conventional lens and image capture-based systems.

This includes everything from telescopes to cameras and mobile devices, by creating a lens system that reduces the depth (relative to aperture size) currently required in many traditional curved lens stacks.

In Layman, the group has redefined the world of physics and discovered a game-changing way of compressing the traditional curved lens stacks required for optics through the use of “flat” surfaces instead of curved, and a square aperture instead of a circle

This technology represents a true paradigm shift in the world of optics.

A picture is worth a thousand words, so take a look:

Traditional Telescope vs. Blade Optics Telescope. Design Rendering. Actual prototype and applications may vary.

Many subscribers are up big – especially those that invested during the time of our initial coverage when the stock was just C$0.34 less than a year ago.

Over the course of the past year, the Company has been making progress on its prototype.

And just a couple of weeks ago, on February 21, 2017, the Company announced that the prototype works:

Via NexOptic:

“NexOptic Technology Corp. and Spectrum Optix Inc. of Calgary, Canada…are pleased to announce that they have completed assembly of their proof of concept telescope prototype lens stack and successfully captured its first set of unprocessed images of the moon.”

I believe this will soon be featured in every major scientific or physics magazine in the coming months and years.

As you already know, I also believe this discovery could give the inventors a shot at winning the coveted Millennium Technology Prize and maybe even the Nobel Prize for Physics.

And in exactly one month from now, the Blade Optics™ prototype will be revealed for the world to see.

Launch Event

As I mentioned in a previous letter:

“I have 5 exclusive VIP tickets for our readers to this event which will be made available by random draw once the Company announces the date. The event will be held in Vancouver, BC. I’ll have more details in the coming weeks. If you’re interested in attending, reply to this email with the subject line “NXO Launch” and we’ll put you down for an early draw to win a ticket.”

The event is now set for April 4, 2017, at the Vancouver Planetarium.

The theme of the evening is “Flattening the Telescope,” and will mark the Companies’ first step in transforming what they believe may redefine many additional optical applications by utilizing their patent-pending Blade Optics™ lens technology.

The event will be the first public unveiling of the Companies’ Blade Optics™ prototype, a disruptive telescope system which contains flat lenses, a square aperture and ~1:1 lens stack depth to aperture ratio — an unprecedented form factor compared to the much longer telescope lens stacks predominantly in use today.

The venue is completely booked but those of you who replied have already been put into a draw for the five remaining tickets.

The draw will close at midnight PST on March 8, 2017, so if you haven’t entered already:

Simply leave a comment below with the subject line “NXO Launch.”

A Sneak Peak

Today, I want to give you a sneak preview of the event from a more technical perspective.

I am sure by now you’re wondering how the prototype performs.

While the Company is holding off on releasing the set of images of the moon that they captured, we do have an idea of how good these pictures are.

How?

Because NexOptic commissioned Larry McNish, past president of the Calgary Centre of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada and a man who has won numerous awards in the field of astrophotography, to field test the prototype.

And I have been given permission by Mr. McNish to republish his evaluation for you here.

Here is his evaluation.

It’s incredible…

Evaluation of the NexOptic Prototype Telescope –

RASC Calgary Centre

By Larry McNish

The picture above shows myself with an equatorial telescope mount and a two telescope configuration.

The black box on the left is a telescope – the NexOptic Telescope (really!).

Although only 5 inches “thick” it has a focal length and field of view similar to the
Celestron 5 inch (127 mm) diameter Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope on the right.

Evaluation of The NexOptic Telescope

On February 7th I was invited to travel to Tucson, Arizona to evaluate and take astrophotographs through the world’s first fully-functional prototype of a totally new advanced optical system.

I had never heard of a telescope like this one, which was designed and built by NexOptic Technology Corp. (“NexOptic”) (TSX-V: NXO) (OTCQB: NXOPF) and Spectrum Optix Inc. of Calgary, Canada, (with the assistance of Ruda Cardinal Inc.).

  • A square objective which is neither a round objective lens nor a reflective mirror?
  • An objective focal length of ~1460 mm in a package only 12.7 cm (5 inches) thick?

After a quick meeting with Rob Cardinal (who many of you Calgary RASC people know from his discovery of two comets using the Rothney Observatory’s Baker-Nunn telescope), I was absolutely convinced I had to try out this new design.

Over the next 3 days, I had the opportunity to work with the NexOptic scope and it’s companion scope (shown above), setting them up, taking them down, transporting them around, and imaging daytime and nighttime objects.

Each scope was fitted with identical FLIR (formerly Point Grey Research, Inc.) BLACKFLY S USB 3 imagers for their optical calibration purposes. I downloaded the FLIR camera’s Spinnaker software to my own laptop, and off I went.

Target #1 was the Moon. With a focal length of 1460mm and the camera’s small sensor size, the field of view was just 0.2 degrees – less than half the width of the Moon. And it was a Full Moon at the time. Nevertheless, I was easily able to use the laptop to target, focus and capture multiple images and darks from both scope/camera setups in a “panorama” sequence covering the whole Moon.

Target #2 was daytime shots of distant mountains around Tucson, again taken with both scope/camera setups.

Target #3 was star shots, but the nearly Full Moon and significant mechanical problems with the equatorial mount (not the scopes) prevented this.

Images (and darks) were taken in TIFF format so that they could analyze the prototype’s optical performance at the highest color depth.

Using the dual-mounted scopes on the equatorial mount to take mountain shots.

(Yes – they look funny positioned that way, but you can’t “bend” an equatorial mount
to force it to take Alt-Azimuth photographs, nor did I want to set the latitude to 0 since
the counterweights could have hit the tripod legs, and I didn’t have a tripod with a dovetail bar top.)

A scale schematic comparison of traditional telescopes versus the NexOptic

The scale diagram I created below shows how the physical length of similar focal length telescopes changes with the optical design.

The current industry “Champion” for amateur long focal-length telescope compression is the Schmidt-Cassegrain design using a thin corrector lens, a spherical primary mirror, and a further correcting secondary mirror. I own two of these 8-inch scopes, one on an equatorial mount, and (my favorite) on a Fork-Mount-Housing and an equatorial wedge for long-duration astrophotography.

Evaluation

Although I am under a non-disclosure agreement at this time, and cannot reveal technical details of its patent-pending design and construction, or the images I took (which are being examined as carefully as one does when doing the final polishing of a reflector telescope mirror), I have been given permission to describe my evaluation of the unit as follows:

  • The first time I was handed the unit I thought to myself “Where’s the rest of it?” There is no power cable since the telescope does not contain any electronics. I just added the USB cable to the FLIR camera and I was ready to image.
  • The physical length (i.e. “thickness”) of the NexOptic was a surprise! I never would have thought you could squeeze 146 cm (1460 mm) of focal length into just 12.7 cm (5 inches).
  • The operation and imaging was remarkably easy for what I was told was considered a prototype instrument.
  • The field of view was narrower than the 1250 mm Schmidt-Cassegrain as it should be for a 1460 mm focal lens scope.
  • The Celestron Advanced VX Equatorial mount had no problem pointing, and tracking with both scopes mounted, so the weight is simply not a factor.
  • We transported it in a padded case (like any high-quality telescope), in a rental car, all over Tucson. No “re-collimation” was needed. In fact, I didn’t see any adjustments (other than focus) on the scope body at all.

Conclusion

I’ve observed and imaged through a lot of different shapes and sizes of telescopes over the last 30 years, and having had the opportunity to take images with the NexOptic prototype, I believe that they have potentially created a “paradigm shift” innovation in optical design.

It seems to me that their “Blade Optics” is the biggest change in the fundamental design of long focal length telescopes since Newton replaced Galileo’s lenses with mirrors.

– Larry McNish

Larry McNish is a member of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, an astronomer and astrophotographer for 30 years, and past president of the Calgary Centre of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. He has won multiple awards including the AstroImaging Award in 2006 and 2007 and also the Peter Sim Public Education Award in 2009.The above evaluation has been republished with permission. The original article can be found at http://calgary.rasc.ca/nexoptic.htm.

Conclusion

While I rarely like to use buzzwords – game-changing, revolutionary, radical – it’s hard not to when you’re talking about adding a new chapter to physics.

At the end of the day, it all comes down to what you – the market – believes this revolutionary technology to be worth.

Sure the patent-pending technology can be challenged, and sure there are risks as to how management decides to structure potential licensing deals.

But you’re not a disruptive tech if you can’t threaten the core businesses of your competitors.

We know the physics works, we know the prototype works, and with Larry McNish’s evaluation, we now have insight as to the quality of the design.

Keep in mind this is a proof-of-concept prototype!

Remember what Apple computers looked like 10 years ago?

Remember what the first iPod looked like?

Let me refresh your memory…

And the 1st generation iPod shown above wasn’t even a prototype – it was a commercial product!

If the quality of this technology is as McNish describes (which we will soon find out on April 4, 2017), then imagine what Blade Optics could become once it’s refined.

Exciting times ahead…

NexOptic Technology Corp.

Canadian Trading Symbol: TSX-V: NXO

US Trading Symbol: OTCQB: NXOPF

German Trading Symbols: Frankfurt: E301 Berlin: E301

Seek the truth,

Ivan Lo

The Equedia Letter

www.equedia.com

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  1. Will this be cheaper than conventional telescopes that have comparable resolution? Is size the main advantage? How big is the potential market?

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    I am a big investor as well and would be absolutely ecstatic to see this truely magnificent prototype revealed to the public. Hope I win ??

  3. So how does this differ from what is being done at U of Utah, Caltech and Harvard, all patenting and perfecting flat lens technology specifically for cellphones as their direct market. Each have been at it for as far back as 2012 and have associations with the US military, Google etc. One can’t play the investments of a university patent, that is where Nexoptix has the opportunity for the public but its all about the cellphone cameras, that’s the real “bluesky opp”, not telescopes. Just asking.

  4. Hey the Shares dropped today, either there’s some insider info unknown to the public or a massive pump and dump happened. Could someone explain this phenomenon?

    1. Wondering the same myself. Was buying all the way up and now am sitting at an average a sliver above $3/per. Standing pat since the drops started but today’s buzzerbeater drop to the $1.50’s range has me losing it. I left work today and it was $2.40ish – I walked in my front door 40 mins later and I’ve lost 25%. I’m fairly green, but thats not normal. Lots of rumours starting up but have no idea whats happening. Allegedly there was some profit taking by one of the big trading companies which triggered stop-losses and everything collapsed. Sounds logical, but no idea. Some insider selling also occurred, but it was for tiny amounts and likely was profit taking. Again logical. No idea though.
      Still think this is the real deal and April 4th is going to be fantastic but man this is getting to be a heck of a toboggan ride. Hopefully Ivan has some insight!

      1. So after finding out what happened, Insider Arnold Armstrong sells 20,000 Shares on March 17th at $3.15 per share, and Director James Garnet Clark sells 5,000 of his share. My question is, with the upcoming event in April 4th coming soon, knowing confidentially that this technology will be a big break through, why would they sell their stock when it implies that they might make more off by waiting till the day of the event.

  5. I have no reason to doubt the veracity of this newsletter. I don’t use it for investing ideas, but I DO enjoy the overall editorial theme. However, after a quick glance at the NXOPF chart? Wow, it does have the appeance of a “textbook” penny stock scam. So then I just did a quick Google news search – and the first item is the REQUIRED press release from NXO of “no material change” prompted early in the dramatic (and unusual) run-up – the type that you wouldn’t expect until AFTER a really successful launch event. Please don’t misunderstand me. Just to be 100% clear: I’ve not researched the company at all – other than what’s been written on this site (which I’ve found interesting due to a background in physics and astronomy). I was honestly surprised by what happened to the stock price – EVEN though I never expected that a company with so little resources was going to “disrupt” anything. Sure,, anything is possible (and I won’t drag out the “Steve Jobs built Apple in a garage” cliche). My point is just that REGARDLESS of how this tech works out for NXO – it’s a cool “Cinderella story” – and those who HAVE considered it to be worth investing deserve (like all of us) to not be taken advantage of. There is never a guarantee to make money OR to not be ripped off. But I find myself sincerely hoping that an explanation for the insane FLASH CRASH to NXOPF is made known – as I don’t WANT to believe it was intentional (and those familiar with the penny stock game know how the stories work). Again, I am not at ALL informed here, but… it doesn’t look good. I doubt there was any “institutional” smart money involved, or any evil HFT hedge funds, haha. So who knows? Lastly, even if it WAS manipulated – it certainly doesn’t imply any impropriety by Equedia OR company insiders. Not at all. Though it would leave a bad taste in my mouth. But there IS some GOOD news too, I.e. this “story” is not over yet! And thus it can still have a happy ending. Good luck! T III

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    I also bought this stock at around .34 cents. I have added to my position a few times more! Can’t wait for the launch!!!

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