Source: engadget .com

Bemoaning the fact that those new slimline iMacs weren't compatible with your VESA mounts? Well, the problem has now been (kind of) solved, with Apple's online store adding the option to buy its desktop models with built-in VESA mount adapters. You'll have to pay for that reclaimed deskspace, however, with $40 added to the prices of both the 21.5-inch and 27-inch families. You'll also need to purchase the stand separately, although your old VESA arms will be compatible. Alas, if you've already paid up for your new iMac, there's still no word on any transformation kits just yet.

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Source: wiley .com

Background
The aim was to investigate the visual effect of coloured filters compared to transmission-matched neutral density filters, in patients with dry age-related macular degeneration.

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Source: visionhelp.wordpress.com

As most of you reading this will know, Optometry and Ophthalmology potentially have much in common when it comes to areas of mutual interest in helping patients. During my professional career it hasn’t always seemed that way, and Lord knows if you read this blog you’ll find examples where it appears that our two professions are in different boats, oft times rowing in different directions if not on collision courses.

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Source: gizmag .com

It’s no secret that juvenile brains are more malleable and able to learn new things faster than adult ones – just ask any adult who has tried to learn a new language. That malleability also enables younger brains to recover more quickly from trauma. Researchers at Yale University have now found a way to effectively turn back the clock and make an old brain young again.

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Source: coolest-gadgets .com

Glasses could turn into the next big tech thing. First you’ve got Google starting to tout their upcoming Google Glass product. Many of the functions of our smartphones will be included in their “smart spectacles” – which will attempt to eliminate the awkward fumbling that inevitably occurs when we need our phone. Next up in the world of glasses? A conceptual gadget from Johns Hopkins University looks to include a literal lifesaver on a pair of specs.

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Source: scienceworksforus .com

The vital partnership between NIH and Vanderbilt – reproduced at universities all around the country – supports thousands of brilliant minds from all around the world. Sequestration will discourage a generation of young people from even considering a career in research.

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Source: medicalnewstoday .com

A contact lens technique called overnight orthokeratology (OK) brings rapid improvement in vision for nearsighted patients. Now a new study shows that OK treatment works mainly by flattening the front of the cornea, reports a recent study, "Posterior Corneal Shape Changes in Myopic Overnight Orthokeratology", appearing in the March issue of Optometry and Vision Science, official journal of the American Academy of Optometry. The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health.

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Source: medscape .com

Adopting an electronic health record (EHR) system is a money-losing proposition for most physicians, even with the availability of federal bonuses for meaningful use of the technology, according to a study published online today in the journal Health Affairs.

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Source: medilexicon .com

Researchers from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine collaborated with an international team to identify seven new genes associated with agerelated macular degeneration (AMD), the most common form of vision loss in older people. Published online March 3 in Nature Genetics, their study, "Seven New Loci Associated with AgeRelated Macular Degeneration," provides new directions for biological, genetic and therapeutic studies of macular degeneration.

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Source: medgadget .com

As everyone knows by now, when someone experiences a stroke “time lost is brain lost.” But before treatment can begin, it is critical to confirm that the patient isn’t experiencing stroke-like symptoms from another, less life threatening condition. CT scans are usually performed as soon as possible to diagnose a stroke, but they’re not definitive, while MRI suffers from high cost and the fact that many clinics simply don’t have one available for emergency use. A team from Johns Hopkins Medicine has developed a considerably cheaper solution that so far has performed just as well as MRI exams in identifying stroke in a small pilot study.

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Source: mobihealthnews .com

HIMSS13’s showfloor had no small number of dedicated medical tablets, some from big tech companies like Panasonic and Fujitsu and others from dedicated tablet companies like Motion Computing. Here’s seven devices that were on display at the show, and one that was being shown off in Austin this week at SXSW. Some devices are enterprise tablets designed for a wide range of uses in manufacturing and retail, while others are truly dedicated medical devices.

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Source: wtop .com

Research company 2AI is working on a pair of glasses that can fix color blindness.
The glasses were originally designed to help doctors find bruises and veins in patients, until the unintended side effect was discovered.

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Source: healio .com

Scroll down to watch newly published video presentations from glaucoma specialists at Hawaiian Eye 2013. And check back in coming days for more presentations.

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Source: nih .gov

PURPOSE:
Green tea (GT), widely studied for its beneficial properties in protecting against brain ischemia, is a rich source of polyphenols, particularly (-)-epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG). The results presented here demonstrate the beneficial effects of GT in diabetic retinas and in retinal cells under diabetic conditions.

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Source: medpagetoday .com

Eye complications from hematopoietic stem cell transplantation are common in pediatric patients, although usually mild, a single-center study showed.

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Source: forbes .com

With all the hype around Google Glass, there’s been surprisingly little attention paid to one of the most obvious questions: Could Google Glass hurt your eyes?

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Source: gizmodo .com

The one thing we always wish our cameras did better is take better pictures in low light. It looks like Canon is attacking the problem guns a'blazing, because its new 35mm image sensor spits in the face of darkness.

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Source: gizmodo .com

Researchers at Brown University have made the first wireless, implantable, rechargeable brain-computer interface. Humans might be next in line for testing of the device, after 13 months of successful trials in monkeys and pigs.

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Source: engadget .com

We know what you think this hands-on is about. That laptop you see up there has a Tobii eye-tracking sensor affixed to it, and you're probably wondering why we're still dwelling on it after getting hands-on twice at CES 2012 and once more at CES 2013. But that's not what we're here to show you today. While wandering the halls of Mobile World Congress, we came across NUIA (Natural User Inter Action), a German company whose software is designed to make it easier for developers to code apps that make use of eye tracking sensors, such as Tobii's. In particular, devs will only have to write one extension, even if they're making use of multiple sensing devices (e.g., eye control and gesture recognition).

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Source: adobe .com

Photoshop Touch is now available in a version specifically built for phones! Following up on the very popular tablet version, Photoshop Touch for phone is available on the Apple App Store and Google Play for US $4.99.

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Source: microsoft .com

REDMOND, Wash. — Feb. 27, 2013 — Microsoft Corp. today announced worldwide availability of a major new update to its Microsoft Office 365 services for business. Microsoft’s most complete Office cloud service to date has new features and offerings tailored to the needs and budgets of small, medium-size and large organizations. In addition to updated Microsoft Lync Online, Microsoft Exchange Online and Microsoft SharePoint Online services, business users can now get the rich Office applications they are familiar with, on up to five devices, delivered as an always up-to-date cloud service. Office 365 features enhanced enterprise social capabilities with SharePoint and Yammer today, and Lync-Skype connectivity for presence, instant messaging (IM), and voice by June. The new Office 365 service is available today in 69 markets and 17 languages and will be available in an additional 20 markets and 16 languages in the second quarter of this year.

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Source: nytimes .com

Samsung’s next big smartphone, to be introduced this month, will have a strong focus on software. A person who has tried the phone, called the Galaxy S IV, described one feature as particularly new and exciting: Eye scrolling.

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Source: engadget .com

Android-powered monitors / all-in-ones aren't exactly a novel concept, but it's definitely a new frontier for Acer. The company is just dipping its toes into the space with the Smart Display DA220HQL, which it's showing off here at Mobile World Congress. If you've never heard of such a thing, Acer is hoping you'll use as a kitchen PC, or as an external monitor for keeping an eye on things like email.

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Source: gizmag .com

For professional photographers, an incident light meter is rather important. Unlike a reflective light meter, which measures the amount of light bouncing off a subject, an incident light meter measures light before it reaches the subject. This is helpful in situations where lighting is inconsistent. A new product called Luxi is designed to turn your iPhone into just such a light meter.

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Source: springer .com

Abstract
There has been little research examining the psychological antecedents of safety-oriented behavior aimed at reducing myopia risk. This study utilizes self-determination theory (SDT) and the theory of planned behavior (TPB) to understand the role of motivational and social-cognitive factors on individuals’ near-work behavior. Adopting a prospective design, undergraduate students (n = 107) completed an initial questionnaire based on SDT in week 1, a second questionnaire containing measures of TPB variables in week 2, and objective measures of reading distance and visual acuity in week 6.

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Source: nih .gov

BACKGROUND/AIMS:
To investigate the effect of smoking on choroidal thickness using Fourier domain optical coherence tomography.

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Source: clickondetroit .com

Melany Moras suffered her first migraine last spring when she was pregnant. It lasted an entire weekend.
"I was hiding in my closet because I couldn't really be out. I was dizzy. It was really bad," said Moras.

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Source: newsfromaoa .org

The Envision Conference is seeking submissions for clinical education and research sessions through March 22, 2013.

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Source: givingsight .org

Optometry Giving Sight has announced today that Dr. Juan Carlos Aragon, Senior Vice President, Americas Region for CooperVision, will be the inaugural Chair of the organization’s new Global Development Board (GDB).

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Source: college-optometrists .org

Our new report, published today, reveals almost one in 10 parents (9%) can’t remember the last time their child went for a sight test or believe it has been over 10 years since their last test.

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Source: imedicalapps .com

Here at iMedicalApps, we are big fans of any tools that make our lives as physicians and medical students easier.
The introduction of the iPad and the subsequent development of novel three-dimensional anatomy apps has no doubt improved the anatomy education of medical students and clinicians alike.

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Source: engadget .com

Google's Glass augmented reality project opened itself to a few thousand more potential wearers with the #ifihadglass promotion, but according to the New York Times it's already addressing the question of if people want Glass. One major obstacle to introducing such a new type of product is making it look good, and the paper reports Google is negotiating with online glasses seller Warby Parker to help design better looking frames, citing unnamed sources. Of course, we ran to the counter, $1,500 in hand to get a taste of the future of wearable computing -- and take first person pics of that group skydiving we're always doing -- but we can imagine any efforts to take Glass mass market will need some refashioning first.

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Source: coolest-gadgets .com

So, you happen to own an iPad and cannot live without it wherever you go. Thing is, no matter how strong you are, your hands might end up rather tired even after a while from holding up an iPad to watch movie after movie. This is where iPad holders come in handy, but there are already so many in the market, will this latest addition offer something different? Well, Hammacher’s $99.95 Any Surface Magnetic iPad Mount intends to do so, where this unique iPad holder will be able to mount to any vertical or horizontal surface.

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Source: gizmodo .com

A man walks out of a restaurant into the night and sees street lights and brightly lit shop windows. He's so thrilled by the spectacle that he stands there for 10 minutes, just looking. The reason for his joy at such a mundane sight is the fact that he is normally totally blind.

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Source: coolest-gadgets .com

Aging sucks, but it is a rite of passage that we all must go through. In fact, I am starting to feel the effects of plunging headlong into my 30s, and somehow, the energy that I used to possess just a couple of years ago is no longer there. Parts of the body are guaranteed to fail in due time, or at least, have its performance deteriorate over the course of time. Apart from one’s hearing, sight too, is a sense that will start to blur due to the scourge of time. Well, good thing we live in this day and age where there is technology to help us out, and the $329 Handheld LCD Magnifier is one nifty device which delivers up to 13.6x magnification, all in the palm of your hand.

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Source: readwrite .com

Who says the iPad wasn't meant for creation? Sure, you can't exactly run Final Cut Pro or Adobe InDesign on Apple's tablet (nor would you really want to), but the device has come a long way since 2010. One category of apps that demonstrates the iPad's creative prowess is its growing selection of photo-editing software.

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Source: slashdot .org

Imagine not being able to move a mouse or use a keyboard to control your computer. Frustrating, right? A company Timothy Lord found at CES named Eyetech has a solution for this problem: an eye tracker system that can control your computer or TV (or whatever) purely through eye movements. This isn't something you buy on a whim; the system costs $3000. That's a lot, but Eyetech claims they were the first ones to produce a high-accuracy eye tracker for less then $20,000. Obviously, this is a boon to profoundly disabled people. But Eyetech's Keith Jackson says, in the video, that they also have customers who use Eyetech instead of a mouse because of carpal tunnel syndrome, and that with voice recognition and on-screen keyboards -- and Eyetech, of course -- you can use your computer without (literally) lifting a finger.

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Source: gizmodo .com

Supposedly a picture is worth a thousand words, but this crazy 320-gigapixel panorama of London has got to be worth a little more than that. This record-shattering shot is actually some 48,640 stitched together into one ludicrous goliath. You wish your camera was even one one-hundredth as cool.

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Source: gizmodo .com

If the NFL ever loosens its strict equipment standards, it might one day be able to provide fans with a unique view of the game thanks to research being done at Carnegie Mellon University. Kris Kitani, a postdoctoral research fellow at the school, has developed a clever piece of software that can stabilize footage captured from a camera-equipped spinning ball.

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Source: the-gadgeteer .com

If you use your tablet in your kitchen while making recipes, watching cooking lessons, or just listening to music, you are aware of the challenges of using it while keeping it protected. Williams-Sonoma offers three items in their Smart Tools line which they have designed to make it easy to use your tablet in a potentially gadget-unfriendly environment. First up is the Smart Tools Kitchen Stand for Tablets ($49.95). It has a brushed-metal finish that resists water and grease and a non-slip silicone base. It can hold your tablet horizontally or vertically in four positions. If you want to supplement the tablet’s sound with better/louder speakers, you can add the Smart Tools Bluetooth Speaker ($149.95).

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Source: gizmodo .com

It turns out there's an uneasy jungle truce between tigers and elephants. Tigers don't try to attack and eat full-grown pachyderms, and the elephants make sure not to trample the big cats. And it's this unofficial agreement that the BBC used to its advantage to capture the first footage of newborn tiger cubs in the wild.

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Source: engadget .com

So when can you get your very own slice of Google future? Perhaps sooner than you thought. The company's just outlined a competition that will put its Glass device in the hands of non-developer types. Using Twitter or Google+, you'll need to outline what you would do if you had the device -- we're guessing they want to see some big ideas.

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Source: gizmag .com

Researchers from the Munich University of Technology (TUM) have created a high-tech wall designed to help the elderly continue to live at home by providing assistance in everyday tasks and monitoring their health. The "wonderwall" can find misplaced keys and glasses, check blood pressure and blood sugar levels and, in the event of a critical health problem, call the local doctor or mobile nursing service.

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Source: brienholdenvision .org

The most advanced technology for use in real-time detection and assessment of common blinding eye disease and general health disorders will soon be available to the world with stimulus funding provided for development by the Australian Government’s CRC Program. The imaging technology of the breakthrough retinal camera is being developed by the Vision Cooperative Research Centre (Vision CRC) based in Sydney with international partners in Australia, US, China, India and Africa.

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Source: wiley .com

Background
Proteases, protease activity and inflammatory molecules in tears have been found to be relevant in the pathogenesis of keratoconus. We sought to determine the influence of eye rubbing on protease expression, protease activity and concentration of inflammatory molecules in tears.

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Source: imedicalapps .com

Purpose of App Review
To highlight the functionality of a pharmacy app for the Android platform.

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Source: gizmodo .com

When you're starting out in photography, with your shiny new DSLR, the world of lenses can be complex and scary place: prime this, wide angle that, and what the hell is focal length anyway? Don't worry! This video should have you covered.

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Source: unboundmedicine .com

Purpose: One approach for restoring vision in end-stage hereditary retinal diseases is implantation of a subretinal microphotodiode array. We analyzed retinal fluorescein angiography findings of the implant area.

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Source: visionhelp.wordpress .com

Current definition:
•A reduction in best corrected visual acuity to 20/40 or worse or more than 1 line difference in Snellen acuity between both eyes, in the absence of disease
•Prevalence: 3%
•Etiology: Typically present in constant unilateral strabismics and/or high anisometropes with approximately 1/3 falling into each category

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Source: gizmag .com

Along with facial expressions, tell-tale variations in facial blood flow that causes reddening and whitening of the skin can also give an indication of people's emotions. To take advantage of this, 2AI Labs developed a special pair of glasses designed to enhance a person's color vision to better enable them to perceive the oxygenation and hemoglobin variations in another person's face, and thus their emotional state. The glasses are now finding a variety of applications, from medical to security.

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