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Contact Lens With LED: You’ve Got Something in Your Eye, Sir.
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It’s one thing to stick an LED in a prosthetic eye, but to place it in a contact lens and then place the lens in your still working eye? Gross. Also not as impressive. But YouTuber/tinkerer/proto-Adam Jensen Ben Krasnow did it nonetheless. For science!… |
December 23rd, 2011
Memo Eyes: Sticky Notes for Your Eyeballs
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Take a look at the pair of glasses below. They look like your ordinary pair of contemporary sunglasses, no? Well take a closer look. Wait a second, those aren’t lenses at all. They’re sticky notes.… |
November 5th, 2011
Laser Procedure Can Make Your Brown Eyes Blue – Permanently
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For obvious reasons, parents have always taught their kids that what matters is on the inside, and not on the outside. They tell us to accept what we were born with, that we’re all beautiful regardless of size or shape or color. And yet, still for the same obvious reasons,… |
November 3rd, 2011
Dry Eyes Are a Thing of the Past With the J!NS Moisture Glasses
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I carry a small bottle of Eye-Mo in my handbag wherever I go, just in case my eyes begin to feel dry while I’m out at work or doing errands. I once ran out of Eye Mo and literally pinched myself so hard, just so I could cry some tears… |
July 28th, 2011
Tobii Unveils World’s First Eye-Controlled Laptop: A Sight to Behold
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Our interactions with gadgets continue to get more and more natural and instinctive. Yesterday at CeBit 2011 Tobii showed off a very promising technology. The Swedish company collaborated with Lenovo to create the world’s first eye-controlled laptop. The laptop has a sensor bar below its display that tracks the user’s… |
March 2nd, 2011
Technology Saves the Day in a Weird Way: Man Loses Eyesight, Doctors Restore It by Implanting His Tooth in His Right Eye
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Martin Jones lost his eyesight about 10 years ago, when “a white hot tub of aluminum exploded in his face” while we was working at a scrapyard. Doctors had to remove his left eye, while his right eye was rendered useless because of the damage. Jones married his wife four… |
July 13th, 2009
Olympus μ9000 Digicam: Beauty is in the 10% Larger Than Normal Eyes of a Person
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Our eyes are one of our most distinguishing features; change them even just a bit and the consequences are sure to be dramatic. Put a green mask over Dick Grayson’s eyes and suddenly people won’t recognize him, all they see is this young and athletic sidekick doomed to wear a… |
March 8th, 2009
Googly Eyeball Clock: It’S Eye Time.
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Here’s a fun way to keep track of time. Designer Mike Mak’s Eyeclock tells time with a pair of slowly rotating disks that look like cartoon eyeballs. The position of the left eyeball signifies hours, while the right one is minutes. Depending on the time of day, the eyes might… |
February 22nd, 2009
Third Eye Video Camera Makes You Look Like a Cyclops
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Can’t figure out where to put that pesky camcorder when you’re out and about? Why not free your hands and strap the darned thing to your head? This ridiculous looking (and badly named) “Third Eye” video camera attaches to your forehead using a stretchy elastic headband, and lets you capture… |
February 18th, 2009
Blinky Keeps His Eyes on Your Glasses [Pac-Man]
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I can’t tell you how many times I’ve set my eyeglasses down somewhere really obvious. But, like Mr. Magoo, I completely misplace them anyhow. On the other hand, I’m pretty sure if I kept my glasses in this awesome Blinky ghost eyeglass case, I’d never lose track of them again.… |
May 15th, 2008
