Monday, July 1, 2013
World’s first telescopic contact lens gives you Superman-like vision
is the first ever example of a bionic eye that effectively gives you Superman-like eagle-eye vision.
As you can see in the photo above, the telescopic contact lens has two very distinct regions. The center of the lens allows light to pass straight through, providing normal vision. The outside edge, however, acts as a telescope capable of magnifying your sight by 2.8x. This is about the same as looking through a 100mm lens on a DSLR. For comparison, a pair of bird-watching binoculars might have a magnification of 15x. The examples shown in the image below give you a good idea of what a 2.8x optical zoom would look like in real life.
To create a 1.17mm-thick telescope, the researchers — led by Joseph Ford of UCSD and Eric Tremblay of EPFL — had to be rather creative. The light that will be magnified enters the edge of the contact lens, is bounced around four times inside the lens using patterned aluminium mirrors, and then beamed to the edge of the retina at the back of your eyeball. The mirrors magnify the image 2.8 times, but also correct for chromatic aberration, resulting in a surprisingly high fidelity image. To switch between normal and telescopic vision, the central (normal, unmagnified) region of the contact lens has a polarizing filter in front of it — and then the wearer equips a pair of 3D TV spectacles. By switching the polarizing state of the spectacles (a pair of active, liquid crystal Samsung 3D specs in this case), the user can choose between normal and magnified vision.
The current telescopic contact lens is made out of PMMA, a gas-impermeable polymer that old, uncomfortable contact lenses used to be made of. To bring their lens to market, the researchers will need to switch over to rigid gas permeable (RGP) polymers, which modern, comfortable contact lenses are made from. While these telescopic lenses are obviously intended for people who suffer from AMD, there’s nothing to prevent a healthy person from wearing them and achieving better-than-human (superhuman?) vision.
www.extremetech.com/extreme/160052-worlds-first-telescopic-contact-lens-gives-you-superman-like-vision/
West On Obama
"Obama said he would fundamentally transform America. The time draws near to teach this usurper and charlatan the lesson our forefathers taught King George III. We will not be ruled by arrogance and edict."
BREAKING NEWS Millburn New Jersey Brutal Home Invasion thug Shawn Custis captured and arrested
A suspected robber caught on a nanny cam beating a mother in front of her child had previously been found lurking in a neighbor's home, it was revealed today. Shawn Custis was arrested in Manhattan on Friday after police released an old mug shot of him to the public. After he was captured, a horrified neighbor of Custis' girlfriend in Inwood, New York, said she had previously found the convicted robber in her apartment unannounced.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2351858/Shawn-Custis-Nanny-cam-home-invader-assaulted-mother-child-known-entering-neighbors-homes.html#ixzz2XoIztI8W Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
Mandatory Government Alerts On Smartphones, Civil Liberties, And The American Citizen As Enemy...
So I just got the below message on my iphone...
Apparently they have added Government alerts for Amber and Emergencies. I just wonder if there isn't just a little bit of NSA code embedded discretely in there somewhere. Our current administration seems much more interested in its own citizens than outside terror sources which we apparently cannot even now post on bus signs.
So if the government can now "push" alerts out to you, can they now push a query out to your unique device id to gather data, such as your current location, recent phone calls, text messages and emails?
There is a certain anonymity in big data, your data in a database of hundreds of millions maybe somewhat anonymous. However, given the current administration's propensity to target certain groups of individuals who least resemble sheep, their distrust of individuals who represent the most law abiding group in this country, their willingness to spy not on America's enemies, but citizens who disagree with their "vision" of change, how can we not be suspicious of government adding software to our smartphones?
A smartphone is a powerful tool for both the individual and the government. The smartphone can be big brother; your location and usage can be known real time, they can listen in on your audio and even access your camera and watch you or perhaps just the inside of your pocket or purse.
We must set limits on what the government can do, they should not have access to this data, our civil rights and civil liberties are at stake, it is time that we just said "no" to this erosion of our privacy and rights.
More ways your civil liberties are eroding:
Public Buses Across Country Quietly Adding Microphones to Record Passenger Conversations
Big Brother: Feds Propose Tracking Black Boxes in All New Cars.
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