eyeglasses News Archive

15-Oct-2008

 

  • Guilty verdict in rape, assault (Worcester Telegram & Gazette)
    WORCESTER - A Leominster man was convicted yesterday of raping one woman at knife point in her home in 2005 and assaulting another with a knife less than two weeks earlier.


  • Lions World Sight Day to be Held in Arizona (PR Newswire via Yahoo! News)
    Lions Clubs International will mark Lions World Sight Day in Arizona, USA, October 15-17. Lions members from Arizona and New Mexico will screen the eyes of hundreds of Native Americans on the Navajo Reservation in Window Rock, Arizona and provide eyeglasses to those who need them. Lions will also arrange for follow-up medical care for those who need it. Lions plan to conduct two diabetes ...


  • Wednesday's Huntsville police blotter (The Huntsville Times)
    Unless otherwise indicated, the following incidents were reported to Huntsville police Monday and Tuesday. In items with incomplete addresses, police withheld the information: North precinct ? A cell phone, a catalytic converter, a pair of prescription eyeglasses, two pairs of...


  • Vision Correction Procedure Hits a Milestone (Carteret County News-Times)
    (ARA) - More than 150 million Americans, or approximately 50 percent of the U.S. population, require eyeglasses or contact lenses to correct common vision problems. For these people, waking up in bed and reaching over to the nightstand for eye glasses is a normal ritual.


  • communitynotes (The Lincoln-Way Sun)
    Eyeglasses drive


  • Augmented Reality Makes Commercial Headway (Scientific American)
    Rich Jenkins opens a child?s picture book and aims a camera phone at a page depicting a cartoon panda bear that is gesturing toward a set of Chinese characters. As Jenkins and I view the page through the cell phone screen, the printed panda suddenly erupts into a 3-D video version that points at the first symbol, pronounces it in Mandarin and then defines it in English. Jenkins, who leads ...


  • A Themed Hotel Comes to an Ivy League Town (New York Times)
    This week?s opening of the Study comes at a particularly gloomy time for the hotel industry, but the privileged status of the Yale campus may offer a degree of stability.


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