eyeglasses News Archive

09-Jun-2009

 

  • State drunken driving defense law scrutinized (Fairbanks Daily News-Miner)
    FAIRBANKS ? A Fairbanks man is challenging a state law prohibiting a particular drunken driving defense.


  • Increase Global Productivity By Giving Eyeglasses To All In Need (Medical News Today)
    Huge economic gains could be made if eyeglasses were provided to approximately 150 million people in need, according to research published today in the international public health journal, the Bulletin of the World Health Organization. Researchers estimate that the global productivity loss due to uncorrected visual impairment in people aged 16 to 50 years is $121.4 billion.


  • Heads up! Interactive data eyeglasses (ZDNet)
    A team of scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems IPMS in Dresden, Germany, is working on a device which incorporates eye tracking to influence the content presented to the viewer. Without having to use any other devices to enter instructions, the wearer can display new content, scroll through a menu or shift picture elements simply by moving her eyes or fixing on ...


  • Had Your Eyes Checked Lately? (MedicineNet.com)
    Title: Had Your Eyes Checked Lately? Category: Health News Created: 6/7/2009 7:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 6/8/2009


  • Foundation donates $5,000 to Nixa Care to Learn (The Springfield News-Leader)
    Nixa -- The Nixa Care to Learn Fund got a big boost from a neighboring state Wednesday at a grand opening celebration for Christian County's newest bank, Bentonville, Ark.-based Arvest Bank.


  • Interactive data eyeglasses (EurekAlert!)
    ( Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft ) The data eyeglasses can read from the engineer's eyes which details he needs to see on the building plans. A CMOS chip with an eye tracker in the microdisplay makes this possible. The eyeglasses are connected to a PDA, display information and respond to commands.


  • BG Lions Club helps recycle 1,000 pair of used eyeglasses (Bowling Green Sentinel-Tribune)
    Bowling Green Evening Lions delivered last month more than 1,000 pair of used eyeglasses for recycling to VOSH (Volunteers Optometric...


  • All The World's A Screen (Forbes)
    Forget about eyeglasses. We're spending a rising amount of our time seeing the world through screens.


  • Bishop optical offering eyeglasses to 4,000 Navajo (The Native American Times)
    FARMINGTON, N.M. (AP) ? Thousands of Navajo citizens are expected to receive free eye exams and eyeglasses by September under a $300,000 contract signed between the Navajo Tribal Council and Bishop Optical.


  • The ?eyes? have it ? ?Frame? a new style with today's exciting trends (Tri-County Times)
    Today?s new fashion eyewear is not much different from jewelry that you plan to wear every day ? although there is cutting-edge technology behind each pair.


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