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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Source: gizmag .com

Sony has filed a US patent for 3D glasses that can be used with any 3D TV set. The glasses use a variety of downloadable software and interchangeable modules that hold out the promise of cheaper 3D glasses that aren't tied to a single receiver model.

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Source: ubergizmo .com

This could be a life changing and historic moment for a number of blind patients in the world: the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the use of an Artificial Retina that could help a specific group of vision-impaired patients to recover a partial vision. The principle of the Artificial Retina works like this: the retina is basically the eye’s “light sensors”, and when it is damaged, the light information isn’t received, and therefore it cannot be transmitted to the brain.The Argus II Artificial Retina uses electronic light sensors (a camera) that performs the function of the retina. It is connected to either the optic nerve, or directly to the brain so that signal can be transmitted. Unfortunately, patients don’t recover full vision capabilities, but going from blindness to partial vision is surely a life-changing event. Now, patients would see obstacles and people’s shapes, which is a huge improvements from seeing very little, or nothing at tall.

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Source: gizmag .com

Adding to its previously released set of video eye-wear glasses, the Wrap 1200, Vuzix is now shipping the Wrap 1200AR. The AR (Augmented Reality) part of the tag is thanks to the addition of a stereoscopic camera pair mounted on the frames, which support VGA video capture at 30 frames per second and enable the display of 3D or 2D AR content.

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Source: networkworld .com

The US Food and Drug Administration today approved what it says is the first bionic eye, or retinal prosthesis, that can partially restore the sight of blind individuals after surgical implantation.

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Source: medicalnewstoday .com

An international team of scientists led by King's College London has discovered 24 new genes that cause refractive errors and myopia (short-sightedness).

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Source: nfb .org

Last night during his State of the Union address, President Obama described the need for better education and training in order to build a more qualified workforce. He went further to describe how the current minimum wage leaves many hourly workers, particularly those with families, earning wages below the poverty line. He argued for more investment in the training and education of the workforce, and for raising the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $9.00 an hour. The same moral and economic arguments being used to justify a lifting of the minimum wage apply to workers with disabilities, about 300,000 of whom are currently being paid wages significantly below the federal minimum wage and the poverty line. Workers with disabilities also need a living wage that raises them out of poverty and dependence on public assistance, and allows them to contribute to the economy by spending the money they have earned.

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Source: reuters .com

For nearsighted children in Denmark, vision deteriorated faster when days were shortest and more slowly during the summer months, according to a new study looking into whether daylight may slow kids' vision loss.

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Source: wiley .com

Purpose: To explore eye laterality (higher refractive error in one eye) and its association with refractive state, spherical/astigmatic anisometropia, age and sex in refractive surgery candidates.

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Source: reuters .com

Screening one- and two-year-olds for lazy eye can reliably detect children at risk for vision problems, a new study suggests.

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Source: newsfromaoa .org

Regardless of your social media prowess, the AOA Ethics and Values Committee can help lay the ground rules for professional and personal use of new ways to network

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Source: mobihealthnews .com

In 2011, MobiHealthNews reported on an increasing number of medical schools instructing students to use mobile devices, including the University of California Irvine’s iMedEd program, where each of the 104 medical students in the class of 2014 received an iPad from the school when they started in 2010. Now the evidence is starting to come in that tablets as an educational tool really make a difference in the medical setting. UC Irvine reported this week that the first class to receive the iPads scored an average of 23 percent higher on national exams than previous classes, even though their incoming GPA and MCAT scores were comparable.

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Source: iu .edu

New research from Indiana University has found that machine learning -- the same computer science discipline that helped create voice recognition systems, self-driving cars and credit card fraud detection systems -- can drastically improve both the cost and quality of health care in the United States.

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Source: gizmodo .com

Windows that can automatically adjust from transparent to opaque to keep out the sun can already be found in use all over, including Boeing's new 787. But while they provide shade, the glass still absorbs and transmits heat to a room. So researchers at Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology have developed an easy-to-apply transparent film that can turn into a mirror to blocks and reflect light away.

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Source: gizmodo .com

You've almost certainly seen the dancing gorilla video which demonstrates the theory of change blindness—a phenomenon which means we don't see changes we're not expecting. Now, an updated experiment shows that the same may be true of radiologists analyzing CT images.

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Source: engadget .com

It's been a year and change since BlueStacks announced a Windows 8 version of its App Player, which let you run most of your Android apps on the then-beta OS. Now the company has announced the official version, tweaked to play nicely with Redmond's own Surface Pro and sporting a fresh, custom-built charm menu and start screen tile. You'll now be able to run apps in "true" touch-enabled full-screen mode using your Win 8 tablet's tilt/motion sensors, and everything will work faster, too. CEO Rosen Sharma also touted the release as a way for developers to bypass Microsoft's "onerous" submission process to get Android apps onto the x86 Surface Pro, and you can't argue with the price -- it's free, and available for download now. For more, head after the fold.

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Source: gizmodo .com

With around 1 in 12 men suffering from color blindness, it's a really common problem—but it's incredibly difficult to understand what it must be like to suffer from. Fortunately, Etre now has a simulator which lets you see the world through the eyes of the color blind.

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Source: newsfromaoa .org

As a result of the extension of the Pension Protection Act through 2011 (H.R. 8), anyone older than 70 ½ can now make an outright gift to a qualified charitable organization, such as Optometry Cares®-The AOA Foundation, by requesting a direct transfer of up to $100,000 from an individual retirement account (Traditional or Roth IRA) without paying taxes on this distribution.

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Source: eyeworld .org

The eye dropper is a technology that has changed relatively little over time, but many doctors have recently seen a need to adapt the device to make it more effective for patients attempting to use it to administer medications. Sean Ianchulev, M.D., clinical associate professor, University of California, San Francisco, recently presented on results of a study for the new eye droplet device being developed by Corinthian Ophthalmic (Raleigh, N.C.). The new delivery system would work to remedy some of the obstacles to patients trying to use eye droppers as a means to deliver medication to the eyes. Mark Packer, M.D., clinical associate professor of ophthalmology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, also worked on the findings for the new technology. Meanwhile, Alan L. Robin, M.D., associate professor of ophthalmology and international health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, weighed in on what an eye drop delivery system would need to do to be effective.

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Source: eyeworld .org

The eye dropper is a technology that has changed relatively little over time, but many doctors have recently seen a need to adapt the device to make it more effective for patients attempting to use it to administer medications. Sean Ianchulev, M.D., clinical associate professor, University of California, San Francisco, recently presented on results of a study for the new eye droplet device being developed by Corinthian Ophthalmic (Raleigh, N.C.). The new delivery system would work to remedy some of the obstacles to patients trying to use eye droppers as a means to deliver medication to the eyes. Mark Packer, M.D., clinical associate professor of ophthalmology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, also worked on the findings for the new technology. Meanwhile, Alan L. Robin, M.D., associate professor of ophthalmology and international health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, weighed in on what an eye drop delivery system would need to do to be effective.

http://bit.ly/14LGSHr

Source: medicinenet .com

The prevalence of glaucoma in the United States is 22 percent higher than it was 10 years ago, a new report reveals.

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Source: newsfromaoa .org

While there are only a few minor edits to the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) for 2013, it is an important year. If a provider (that means you) does not participate in 2013, they will be penalized in 2015.

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Source: visionmonday .com

A new Vision Source-named surgical center has opened at the University of Houston College of Optometry (UHCO) and is the first surgery center in the nation to be housed at, and affiliated with, a college of optometry.

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Source: visionmonday .com

A group called the Essential Health Benefits Coalition (EHBC) sent a letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), requesting that it reduce the requirements in the final Affordable Care Act’s essential health benefits rule, including those regarding pediatric vision care. Pediatric vision care is one of the essential health benefits currently included in the Affordable Care Act.

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Source: gizmag .com

Use digital technology long enough and you start to become dependent upon it for such mundane tasks as spell checking. That means when you pick up a garden variety ballpoint pen you’re back in dictionary and “I before E except after C” territory. Like LiveScribe, the creators of the Lernstift digital pen hope to bring handwriting into the 21st century by having the pen vibrate to indicate when the writer makes spelling and grammatical errors or exhibits poor penmanship.

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Source: newsfromaoa .org

As the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) takes its final steps toward implementing the Affordable Care Act’s essential health benefits (EHB), the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) and groups representing health insurers and business interests are lobbying the agency hard to reverse course on its pediatric vision care EHB proposal by erecting a new barrier between kids and the eye and vision care they need.

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Source: wpcentral .com

Although we’re all about Microsoft’s ecosystem around these parts, we’re not going to pass on a good deal especially if you have a specific need. Box (box.com) cloud storage, akin to Dropbox, SkyDrive and SugarSync, is a cloud based syncing and storage service.

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Source: ubergizmo .com

When it comes to highly affordable HDTVs that offer a fair amount of functionality, the name Sceptre would definitely come into mind. Well, the Sceptre 32-inch LED HDTV (which should be the entry level HDTV for anyone who wants their home to look modern) is now proud to support MHL technology. Wait a minute here, you say, just what the heck is MHL technology? No, it has nothing to do with hockey leagues, but it enables mobile phones and other portable devices to hook up connect to high-definition televisions and displays.

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Source: kevinmd .com

I was recently speaking to the clinical leaders of a mid-sized hospital, and a senior administrator posed the question, “should we require our doctors and nurses to get flu shots?” The answer, I said, is yes, and it isn’t just to prevent the flu. It’s to get into the habit of making our folks do the right thing when it comes to patient safety.

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Source: wiley .com

Background
There are few publications describing what optometrists like about clinical work. The purpose of this paper is to explore what optometrists in practice find satisfying with their work and what they find stressful.

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Source: unc .edu

A study led by researchers at the University of North Carolina is the foundation for a promising new blood test to detect the progression of macular degeneration to its more serious form, which can lead to blindness.

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Source: gizmodo .com

It's a work of art. The magnificently choreographed dance of manufacturing lenses seems like an ancient tradition as old as making swords or soap or something (which I guess isn't surprising because it is glass that they're making). We've seen Nikon produce the glass inside its lenses but this video shows the entire lens making process—you see sand basically become a Nikkor lens. Incredible.

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Source: engadget .com

Can 3D glasses get any less fashionable? Of course they can! And here's some proof. Today, SensoMotoric Instruments (SMI) teased its new Eye-Tracking 3D Glasses, which use a pair of small cameras mounted to the eyeglass rim to keep tabs on your gaze, adjusting perspective as you look about a scene. The rig uses ActiveEye technology from Volfoni, and can detect eye distance as well in order to provide a 3D-viewing experience that's optimized for each user.

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Source: medscape .com

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a smartphone-based system that enables physicians to take wide-view, digital fundus photos through an undilated pupil and then store them in the patient record or email them to a retinal specialist for interpretation and consultation.

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Source: imedicalapps .com

Recently, a new type of medical app was released on to the app store.
These apps are designed to allow doctors to consent patients for procedures, operations and certain investigations.

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Source: medgadget .com

Doctors enjoy the internet as much as (or more than) anyone else – but rules, regulations, and societal norms put twists and complications on physicians’ online experience that others take for granted. Social networks, blogs, and any kind of site that invites participation can be both fun and useful for physicians, but one must be careful to keep professional while surfing.

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Source: medgadget .com

Going on dialysis is an unpleasant fact for many people with diseased kidneys, but in many parts of the world that’s not nearly the biggest problem. Dialysis machines are expensive, rather bulky, and require specialists to maintain and operate. This translates to lots of expense that is simply too much for some.

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Source: engadget .com

Google has really ramped up its education efforts lately, and it looks like it's paid off: according to the Mountain View company, its Chromebooks are now in use in 2,000 schools, which is twice as many as there were three months ago. Three of the more recent participants include Transylvania County Schools in North Carolina with 900 devices, St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Florida with 2,200 and the Rocketship Education charter network in the Bay Area with 1,100.

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Source: gizmodo .com

You're so beautiful. That is, at least according to Simple Human's newest sensor mirror that automatically lights up when it sees your face.

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