IIP is developing a retina implant that has the potential to restore limited eyesight in people who have suffered hereditary vision loss. The implant works with a microcomputer, worn at the waist, and eye glasses. The glasses have a built-in camera, where the visual information that’s captured is converted into electrical impulses and transmitted to
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IOL News: T-shirt maker Laugh It Off has won its fight against South African Breweries over its right to mock the Carling Black Label brand. ‘The words “Black Label Carling Beer – America’s lusty, lively beer enjoyed by men around the world” had been substituted with “Black Labour White Guilt, Africa’s lusty, lively exploitation since
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Chad’s latest post got me thinking. The study of attraction has so far identified two main ways in which we evaluate, on a sub-conscious level, whether a person is evolutionally fit enough to carry our ‘genes’. A sort of ‘sixth-sense’. “Judging beauty is looking at another person and figuring out whether you want your children
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Ooh this is guaranteed to make you feel really uncomfortable… If you decide to watch this, careful you don’t spoil the surprise by reading the viewer’s comments as that would pretty much ruin the whole thing. I’m definitely submitting this one to La Petite Claudine.