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fresnel lens Big Bloom, A Magnifying Vase That Supersizes Your Flowers Fresnel lenses are all around us, but this vase puts the commonplace technology to work in an entirely new way.

The Fresnel lens, invented by Augustin-Jean Fresnel, helped do that by capturing all the light coming from a lamp, then magnifying and steering it in one direction.