It looks like Microsoft may be close to completing its own Surface-branded
smart watch.
Sources inside the Redmond-based company told AmongTech that prototypes of
the smart watch are reportedly already being used by some Microsoft
employees.
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Those same sources indicated that the watch will be available in a number
of different colors (red, yellow, black, grey, white and blue), and that the
watch will be made out of Oxynitride Aluminum. Oxynitride is 80% transparent,
however, it is four times harder than glass.
The Surface watch will reportedly come running an adapted version of
Windows 8, and will have its own built-in radios so it can be used independently
from a smartphone.
News of the Surface watch comes on the same day more rumors have surfaced
about Apple’s purported iWatch. According to a new report, Apple is
“aggressively” hiring engineers to work on the watch.
Both Apple and Microsoft’s smart watches are rumored to be coming late next
year.
What do you think about the new smart watch frenzy? Would you be interested
in owning a smart watch created by Apple or Microsoft? Let us know your thoughts
in the comments.
Monday, July 15, 2013
The largest addition with this release is undoubtedly
Microsoft nowadays released an update to OneNote for Windows RT and Windows
eight, adding Office 365 help and creating the on-screen keyboard dismissible.
You are able to download the new version now straight from the Windows
Retailer.
The largest addition with this release is undoubtedly the ability to sign in together with your Workplace 365 account. This signifies you may now easily open your function notes.
To accomplish so, tap on the A lot more Notebooks drop-down menu in the
left pane, tap the plus button that says “Add a operate or college account to
find out a lot more notebooks,” and sign in together with your operate or school
account. You ought to see a list of lately made use of notebooks seem in the
left pane; tapping any of them must open it.
Subsequent up around the list is often a modest but vital tweak towards the way OneNote’s touch keyboard functions. Whilst the function has generally allow you to kind anyplace, Microsoft has finally admitted that “you don’t wish to type.”
Because of this, it is possible to now dismiss the on-screen keyboard so you can see the whole screen for reading. In Windows 8 and Windows RT, the on-screen keyboard shows up any time you tap into a text box and goes away when you tap outdoors. Tapping “outside” in OneNote implies tapping into any empty space.
Some could see this as a minor detail, but it’s really quite important inside the touchscreen planet that Microsoft has suddenly found itself in. Tweaks like this one particular make the distinction between an excellent app as well as a good one particular.
Although they are the only two improvements Microsoft chose to highlight, the app has received a bit far more within this release. The complete changelog is as follows.
In building Windows eight, Microsoft made a significant bet that adding touch capabilities to personal computers would assist revive an sector that was having eaten away by smartphones and tablets. But Inventive Tactics president Tim Bajarin, writing more than at Time, says his study has found that creating touch such a vital part of individual computers was a really serious strategic error on Microsoft’s aspect. The cause, he says, is the fact that Computer users are so utilized to applying mice and keyboards that they see no benefit to touching their screens to acquire function completed. So even though touch interfaces make excellent sense for smaller sized, portable devices like smartphones and tablets, they make tiny sense for personal computer systems which have larger displays and that already come with trackpads or mice.
“While adding touch input to screens is not a bad issue, people today becoming in a position to adapt speedily to touch as a main type of user interface input on larger PCs will not come about overnight,” Bajarin writes. “Early on, Apple’s scientists studied the kinesiology of arm movements in connection to keyboards and mice, and concluded that implementing any gestures into the user interface worked finest via a trackpad. The corporation also determined that picking the hand up in the keyboard region and moving it to touch the screen was unnatural, and factored that into the final choice to add gestures towards the Magic Trackpad alternatively.”
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The largest addition with this release is undoubtedly the ability to sign in together with your Workplace 365 account. This signifies you may now easily open your function notes.
Subsequent up around the list is often a modest but vital tweak towards the way OneNote’s touch keyboard functions. Whilst the function has generally allow you to kind anyplace, Microsoft has finally admitted that “you don’t wish to type.”
Because of this, it is possible to now dismiss the on-screen keyboard so you can see the whole screen for reading. In Windows 8 and Windows RT, the on-screen keyboard shows up any time you tap into a text box and goes away when you tap outdoors. Tapping “outside” in OneNote implies tapping into any empty space.
Some could see this as a minor detail, but it’s really quite important inside the touchscreen planet that Microsoft has suddenly found itself in. Tweaks like this one particular make the distinction between an excellent app as well as a good one particular.
Although they are the only two improvements Microsoft chose to highlight, the app has received a bit far more within this release. The complete changelog is as follows.
In building Windows eight, Microsoft made a significant bet that adding touch capabilities to personal computers would assist revive an sector that was having eaten away by smartphones and tablets. But Inventive Tactics president Tim Bajarin, writing more than at Time, says his study has found that creating touch such a vital part of individual computers was a really serious strategic error on Microsoft’s aspect. The cause, he says, is the fact that Computer users are so utilized to applying mice and keyboards that they see no benefit to touching their screens to acquire function completed. So even though touch interfaces make excellent sense for smaller sized, portable devices like smartphones and tablets, they make tiny sense for personal computer systems which have larger displays and that already come with trackpads or mice.
“While adding touch input to screens is not a bad issue, people today becoming in a position to adapt speedily to touch as a main type of user interface input on larger PCs will not come about overnight,” Bajarin writes. “Early on, Apple’s scientists studied the kinesiology of arm movements in connection to keyboards and mice, and concluded that implementing any gestures into the user interface worked finest via a trackpad. The corporation also determined that picking the hand up in the keyboard region and moving it to touch the screen was unnatural, and factored that into the final choice to add gestures towards the Magic Trackpad alternatively.”
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Tuesday, July 9, 2013
McAfee: Malware hunts for South Korean military secrets
Hackers who wiped tens of thousands of PC hard drives in South Korea
earlier this year also appear to be targeting the country's military secrets,
according to a report.
A study by McAfee Labs said the group has created malware which scanned systems for keywords including "weapon", "US Army" and "secret".
It said that once a computer's contents had been catalogued, the attackers could "grab documents at will".
South Korea has played down the threat.
Its defence ministry told the Associated Press news agency that it was technically impossible to have lost classified reports because the computers on which it stored military secrets were not connected to the net.
A spokesman for the Pentagon said it planned to review the report.
Social network
McAfee said the attacks were part of a long-term spying operation dating back to at least 2009 which it called Operation Troy because the name of the ancient city repeatedly appeared in the hackers' code.
It began investigating the group following an attack in March which caused data held on PCs used by several banks and TV networks to be deleted.
Although the security firm said that the malware used to wipe the disks was distinct from that used to hunt for the military secrets, it said there were so many similarities between the two that it believed they must be created by the same team.
It traced the spying effort back to at least 2009 when it said the hackers managed to place an exploit on a military social networking site. It added that it believed the code was also spread through the use of "spear phishing" - email or other messages masquerading as official communications which were designed to fool specific individuals into handing over logins and other sensitive information.
The report said that once the malware was in place it searched the infected systems for "interesting" documents.
To do this it scanned for a variety of Korean and English-language keywords.
The study lists dozens of examples including "tactics", "brigade", "logistics" and "Operation Key Resolve" - a military exercise involving both South Korean and US forces carried out every year. McAfee said it had opted to withhold other "sensitive" terms at the request of US officials.
The report explained the software then flagged which computers appeared to have the most valuable contents and uploaded copies of their directories to the attackers' servers.
It said the hackers were then able to pick and choose which files to download in order to keep network traffic to a minimum, helping them avoid detection.
McAfee also warned that it had discovered a version of the spying malware which had the ability to destroy data in a way similar to the one used against the civilian targets.
"This capability could be devastating if military networks were to suddenly be wiped after an adversary had gathered intelligence," it said.
"There was at least one limitation, however. We found the malware of February 2011 could wipe its targets only if it was detected that it was being debugged or analysed by a security product."
A study by McAfee Labs said the group has created malware which scanned systems for keywords including "weapon", "US Army" and "secret".
It said that once a computer's contents had been catalogued, the attackers could "grab documents at will".
South Korea has played down the threat.
Its defence ministry told the Associated Press news agency that it was technically impossible to have lost classified reports because the computers on which it stored military secrets were not connected to the net.
A spokesman for the Pentagon said it planned to review the report.
Social network
McAfee said the attacks were part of a long-term spying operation dating back to at least 2009 which it called Operation Troy because the name of the ancient city repeatedly appeared in the hackers' code.
It began investigating the group following an attack in March which caused data held on PCs used by several banks and TV networks to be deleted.
Although the security firm said that the malware used to wipe the disks was distinct from that used to hunt for the military secrets, it said there were so many similarities between the two that it believed they must be created by the same team.
It traced the spying effort back to at least 2009 when it said the hackers managed to place an exploit on a military social networking site. It added that it believed the code was also spread through the use of "spear phishing" - email or other messages masquerading as official communications which were designed to fool specific individuals into handing over logins and other sensitive information.
The report said that once the malware was in place it searched the infected systems for "interesting" documents.
To do this it scanned for a variety of Korean and English-language keywords.
The study lists dozens of examples including "tactics", "brigade", "logistics" and "Operation Key Resolve" - a military exercise involving both South Korean and US forces carried out every year. McAfee said it had opted to withhold other "sensitive" terms at the request of US officials.
The report explained the software then flagged which computers appeared to have the most valuable contents and uploaded copies of their directories to the attackers' servers.
It said the hackers were then able to pick and choose which files to download in order to keep network traffic to a minimum, helping them avoid detection.
McAfee also warned that it had discovered a version of the spying malware which had the ability to destroy data in a way similar to the one used against the civilian targets.
"This capability could be devastating if military networks were to suddenly be wiped after an adversary had gathered intelligence," it said.
"There was at least one limitation, however. We found the malware of February 2011 could wipe its targets only if it was detected that it was being debugged or analysed by a security product."
Ballmer’s information because it continues to be
Microsoft will hand over its most up-to-date edition with the functioning
procedure, Windows 8.one, to OEMs in late August, Microsoft’s Home windows
internet marketing main told its partners on Monday morning.
Speaking at its Around the globe Husband or wife Convention (WPC), Tami Reller, corporate vp and main promoting officer for Home windows, claimed that Microsoft would make the RTM (release to producing) variation of Home upgrade to windows 8 pro pack to OEMs by late August. Microsoft did not say when Home windows eight.one could well be introduced to individuals in its ultimate variety, but background indicates that Microsoft really should at the least be on target to ship by October.
Microsoft’s WPC, as its identify indicates, is Microsoft’s opportunity to converse its roadmaps to its companions; Microsoft began its spouse software about twenty years ago. In accordance to main govt Steve Ballmer, ninety p.c of your revenue Microsoft realizes “in some way, condition or form” is generated with the partners Ballmer resolved now as portion of a 3.5-hour keynote handle.
In mixture, all those partners experienced “quite a fantastic year,” Ballmer stated, with all of its associates rising six.5 % about past yr, on foundation sales of $650 billion.
Ballmer’s information, because it continues to be, was that Microsoft has reinvented alone as a gadgets and solutions firm, in lieu of just a application firm. “Windows has constantly been more a tool than a piece of software program; it defined a class of machine called the Personal computer,” he reported, whether they be, tablets, all-in-ones, convertibles, and much more.
Ballmer claimed that Microsoft’s associates can be revealed how Microsoft has improved in the cloud, particularly how Microsoft straddles the general public and private cloud; “big data,” together with how Microsoft strategies to share Bing research information with developers and supply general public knowledge to personal clouds with all the Azure Information Market; how Microsoft’s social initiatives straddle a variety of products and solutions; and cell, particularly how Microsoft supports its own products from alone and many others.
Speaking at its Around the globe Husband or wife Convention (WPC), Tami Reller, corporate vp and main promoting officer for Home windows, claimed that Microsoft would make the RTM (release to producing) variation of Home upgrade to windows 8 pro pack to OEMs by late August. Microsoft did not say when Home windows eight.one could well be introduced to individuals in its ultimate variety, but background indicates that Microsoft really should at the least be on target to ship by October.
Microsoft’s WPC, as its identify indicates, is Microsoft’s opportunity to converse its roadmaps to its companions; Microsoft began its spouse software about twenty years ago. In accordance to main govt Steve Ballmer, ninety p.c of your revenue Microsoft realizes “in some way, condition or form” is generated with the partners Ballmer resolved now as portion of a 3.5-hour keynote handle.
In mixture, all those partners experienced “quite a fantastic year,” Ballmer stated, with all of its associates rising six.5 % about past yr, on foundation sales of $650 billion.
Ballmer’s information, because it continues to be, was that Microsoft has reinvented alone as a gadgets and solutions firm, in lieu of just a application firm. “Windows has constantly been more a tool than a piece of software program; it defined a class of machine called the Personal computer,” he reported, whether they be, tablets, all-in-ones, convertibles, and much more.
Ballmer claimed that Microsoft’s associates can be revealed how Microsoft has improved in the cloud, particularly how Microsoft straddles the general public and private cloud; “big data,” together with how Microsoft strategies to share Bing research information with developers and supply general public knowledge to personal clouds with all the Azure Information Market; how Microsoft’s social initiatives straddle a variety of products and solutions; and cell, particularly how Microsoft supports its own products from alone and many others.
Saturday, July 6, 2013
Dell has sold "hundreds of thousands" of XPS 10, Latitude 10 Windows 8, RT tablets
Even as sales of the iPad and iPad mini may be leveling off from their
previous meteoric growth, they still number in the millions for each quarter.
According to a company exec, Dell can't make the same claims for its tablets
running Windows 8 and Windows RT.
While you probably know the Guardian newspaper for being one of the sources of the NSA leaks and the subsequent notoriety of leaker Edward Snowden, it also reports other, less inflamatory, tech news, such as a recent interview with Dell global VP Sam Burd.
In the piece, Burd acknowledges the sales figures for the company's recent tablets running Windows RT and Windows 8. According to Burd, sales of the XPS 10 and the Latitude 10 have been in the "hundreds of thousands," which the Guardian frames in a negative light by saying the exec "admitted" the numbers and said they were "only" hundreds of thousands.
Of course, this is another sign that Windows-based tablets haven't seen explosive sales numbers, but Burd didn't sound the death knell for Dell's slates yet, arguing for a brighter future based on the figures: "I think that's pretty exciting when we look at the ramp [in purchasing] that we expect from corporate customers."
Indeed, the corporate market, which is much more comfortable with the Windows ecosystem than the iPad's or Android, could be Microsoft's saving grace in the tablet world (and, by extension, those manufacturers, like Dell, who are building Windows tablets). However, Burd is talking about a few years before Windows 8 could make up a third or more of the tablet sales volume (by which time it will likely no longer be Windows 8, but that's another story).
Maybe that's why Dell is looking into alternatives, as its core sales of desktops and laptops are predicted to slide and tablet sales haven't made up the difference. Burd says the company has started exploring wearable computers, which means someday soon there might be a Dell smart watch competing against an Apple iWatch.
Are the sales numbers for Dell tablets in line with what you would expect? Should the company be happy or concerned with those figures? Let us know your thoughts in the Talkback section below
While you probably know the Guardian newspaper for being one of the sources of the NSA leaks and the subsequent notoriety of leaker Edward Snowden, it also reports other, less inflamatory, tech news, such as a recent interview with Dell global VP Sam Burd.
In the piece, Burd acknowledges the sales figures for the company's recent tablets running Windows RT and Windows 8. According to Burd, sales of the XPS 10 and the Latitude 10 have been in the "hundreds of thousands," which the Guardian frames in a negative light by saying the exec "admitted" the numbers and said they were "only" hundreds of thousands.
Of course, this is another sign that Windows-based tablets haven't seen explosive sales numbers, but Burd didn't sound the death knell for Dell's slates yet, arguing for a brighter future based on the figures: "I think that's pretty exciting when we look at the ramp [in purchasing] that we expect from corporate customers."
Indeed, the corporate market, which is much more comfortable with the Windows ecosystem than the iPad's or Android, could be Microsoft's saving grace in the tablet world (and, by extension, those manufacturers, like Dell, who are building Windows tablets). However, Burd is talking about a few years before Windows 8 could make up a third or more of the tablet sales volume (by which time it will likely no longer be Windows 8, but that's another story).
Maybe that's why Dell is looking into alternatives, as its core sales of desktops and laptops are predicted to slide and tablet sales haven't made up the difference. Burd says the company has started exploring wearable computers, which means someday soon there might be a Dell smart watch competing against an Apple iWatch.
Are the sales numbers for Dell tablets in line with what you would expect? Should the company be happy or concerned with those figures? Let us know your thoughts in the Talkback section below
And there's a very good possibility that whether
Home windows eight, which debuted very last year, was meant to deliver
Microsoft's flagship running method in the post-PC period while continuing to
serve traditional Computer system users. Regrettably, this desire to provide
equally camps has yielded a software that serves neither particularly very
well.
Windows 8 is oblivious into the context by which it's being utilized and disregards how users may would like to interact with it. Its new "Modern" interface, which was created with touch screens in your mind, but which conventional Personal computer consumers won't be able to stay away from, signifies a big phase backward in purpose for them. And customers of your new interface have discovered a narrow variety of apps offered for it.
Using the new software package, customers can elect to have their personal computers load the traditional desktop interface if they change them on -- relatively than being forced to pass through the fashionable interface to start with. Microsoft has also restored the common -- and commonly missed -- Begin button for the desktop taskbar.
Home windows 8 permitted people to separate the display involving two Modern-day purposes, but would only devote a few quarter with the display screen to one of them, whilst one other obtained the remainder. Along with the update, customers can screen greater than two Modern day purposes at once -- if they have got a big enough screen -- and can regulate simply how much screen space just about every will get. Equally, people of Home windows 8.one can see two or even more tabbed browser home windows in Online Explorer, anything they cannot do while using the unique edition with the functioning program.
And Microsoft seems to be focusing on boosting the variety and high-quality of your applications buyers can choose from. There are now greater than 100,000 applications in the Windows eight retailer, plus the organization introduced at its developer convention very last month that applications from Fb, Flipboard and also the National Soccer League -- which happen to be preferred on iPads and Android products -- are to the way.
Microsoft has also added some new functions to Home windows eight.1. Amid the most effective can be a search characteristic that queries the machine, the internet and the Home windows application shop concurrently; in addition to a feature which will mechanically update your apps and sync them across your Home windows units.
While these types of alterations are welcome, they don't fix Windows 8's fundamental troubles. It truly is still blithely unaware from the context where its remaining utilized. Despite the new "boot to desktop" method, you are going to still generally discover yourself while in the Modern interface, even over a keyboard-and-mouse Laptop. And there's a very good possibility that whether or not you're dedicated to the fashionable interface, you can obtain you fumbling using the desktop, looking to click on icons which were suitable for a pointer -- not your fingertips.
Somewhat than restoring a well-used element, the new Start out button is simply a facade. It will not convey again the aged Windows Start off menu, but simply just usually takes end users again towards the Contemporary residence display. Users can configure it to point out all their programs instead -- in a full-screen Contemporary look at -- but even that see does not duplicate every one of the functions in the outdated Commence menu.
Even with the brand new characteristics, the trendy interface stays a bad in shape for traditional Computer system people. The ability to point out two -- or perhaps 3 -- apps at any given time is just not an alternative to being able to perspective, stack and speedily change involving a lot of windowed folders and applications.
And then there's the application problem. Regardless of the the latest additions, the Windows application store presents end users significantly a lot less alternative than app retailers for your iPad and Android units. For instance, only one of the present-day top rated ten paid out and major ten totally free apps available to the iPad, is obtainable to be a Modern day Home windows app.
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Windows 8 is oblivious into the context by which it's being utilized and disregards how users may would like to interact with it. Its new "Modern" interface, which was created with touch screens in your mind, but which conventional Personal computer consumers won't be able to stay away from, signifies a big phase backward in purpose for them. And customers of your new interface have discovered a narrow variety of apps offered for it.
Using the new software package, customers can elect to have their personal computers load the traditional desktop interface if they change them on -- relatively than being forced to pass through the fashionable interface to start with. Microsoft has also restored the common -- and commonly missed -- Begin button for the desktop taskbar.
Home windows 8 permitted people to separate the display involving two Modern-day purposes, but would only devote a few quarter with the display screen to one of them, whilst one other obtained the remainder. Along with the update, customers can screen greater than two Modern day purposes at once -- if they have got a big enough screen -- and can regulate simply how much screen space just about every will get. Equally, people of Home windows 8.one can see two or even more tabbed browser home windows in Online Explorer, anything they cannot do while using the unique edition with the functioning program.
And Microsoft seems to be focusing on boosting the variety and high-quality of your applications buyers can choose from. There are now greater than 100,000 applications in the Windows eight retailer, plus the organization introduced at its developer convention very last month that applications from Fb, Flipboard and also the National Soccer League -- which happen to be preferred on iPads and Android products -- are to the way.
Microsoft has also added some new functions to Home windows eight.1. Amid the most effective can be a search characteristic that queries the machine, the internet and the Home windows application shop concurrently; in addition to a feature which will mechanically update your apps and sync them across your Home windows units.
While these types of alterations are welcome, they don't fix Windows 8's fundamental troubles. It truly is still blithely unaware from the context where its remaining utilized. Despite the new "boot to desktop" method, you are going to still generally discover yourself while in the Modern interface, even over a keyboard-and-mouse Laptop. And there's a very good possibility that whether or not you're dedicated to the fashionable interface, you can obtain you fumbling using the desktop, looking to click on icons which were suitable for a pointer -- not your fingertips.
Somewhat than restoring a well-used element, the new Start out button is simply a facade. It will not convey again the aged Windows Start off menu, but simply just usually takes end users again towards the Contemporary residence display. Users can configure it to point out all their programs instead -- in a full-screen Contemporary look at -- but even that see does not duplicate every one of the functions in the outdated Commence menu.
Even with the brand new characteristics, the trendy interface stays a bad in shape for traditional Computer system people. The ability to point out two -- or perhaps 3 -- apps at any given time is just not an alternative to being able to perspective, stack and speedily change involving a lot of windowed folders and applications.
And then there's the application problem. Regardless of the the latest additions, the Windows application store presents end users significantly a lot less alternative than app retailers for your iPad and Android units. For instance, only one of the present-day top rated ten paid out and major ten totally free apps available to the iPad, is obtainable to be a Modern day Home windows app.
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Wednesday, July 3, 2013
World’s first telescopic contact lens gives you Superman-like vision
An international team of researchers have created the first telescopic
contact lens; a contact lens that, when it’s equipped, gives you the power to
zoom your vision almost three times. Yes, this is the first ever example of a
bionic eye that effectively gives you Superman-like eagle-eye vision.
As you can see in the photo above, the telescopic contact lens has two very distinct regions. The center of the lens allows light to pass straight through, providing normal vision. The outside edge, however, acts as a telescope capable of magnifying your sight by 2.8x. This is about the same as looking through a 100mm lens on a DSLR. For comparison, a pair of bird-watching binoculars might have a magnification of 15x. The examples shown in the image below give you a good idea of what a 2.8x optical zoom would look like in real life.
The main breakthrough is that this telescopic contact lens is just 1.17mm thick, allowing it to be comfortably worn. Other attempts at granting telescopic vision have included: a 4.4mm-thick contact lens (too thick for real-world use), telescopic spectacles (cumbersome and ugly), and most recently a telescopic lens implanted into the eye itself. The latter is currently the best option currently available, but it requires surgery and the image quality isn’t excellent.
To create a 1.17mm-thick telescope, the researchers — led by Joseph Ford of UCSD and Eric Tremblay of EPFL — had to be rather creative. The light that will be magnified enters the edge of the contact lens, is bounced around four times inside the lens using patterned aluminium mirrors, and then beamed to the edge of the retina at the back of your eyeball. The mirrors magnify the image 2.8 times, but also correct for chromatic aberration, resulting in a surprisingly high fidelity image. To switch between normal and telescopic vision, the central (normal, unmagnified) region of the contact lens has a polarizing filter in front of it — and then the wearer equips a pair of 3D TV spectacles. By switching the polarizing state of the spectacles (a pair of active, liquid crystal Samsung 3D specs in this case), the user can choose between normal and magnified vision.
In case you were wondering, these solutions all primarily exist for one reason: To help restore sight to people with age-related macular degeneration. AMD damages the high-resolution fovea at the center of the retina, but generally the low-resolution outer region (perifovea) still works. Without the fovea, people with AMD can’t make out fine details, such as type on a page. These telescopic spectacles, lenses, and implants focus light onto this outer region, giving people with AMD the ability to make out these details.
The current telescopic contact lens is made out of PMMA, a gas-impermeable polymer that old, uncomfortable contact lenses used to be made of. To bring their lens to market, the researchers will need to switch over to rigid gas permeable (RGP) polymers, which modern, comfortable contact lenses are made from. While these telescopic lenses are obviously intended for people who suffer from AMD, there’s nothing to prevent a healthy person from wearing them and achieving better-than-human (superhuman?) vision.
As you can see in the photo above, the telescopic contact lens has two very distinct regions. The center of the lens allows light to pass straight through, providing normal vision. The outside edge, however, acts as a telescope capable of magnifying your sight by 2.8x. This is about the same as looking through a 100mm lens on a DSLR. For comparison, a pair of bird-watching binoculars might have a magnification of 15x. The examples shown in the image below give you a good idea of what a 2.8x optical zoom would look like in real life.
The main breakthrough is that this telescopic contact lens is just 1.17mm thick, allowing it to be comfortably worn. Other attempts at granting telescopic vision have included: a 4.4mm-thick contact lens (too thick for real-world use), telescopic spectacles (cumbersome and ugly), and most recently a telescopic lens implanted into the eye itself. The latter is currently the best option currently available, but it requires surgery and the image quality isn’t excellent.
To create a 1.17mm-thick telescope, the researchers — led by Joseph Ford of UCSD and Eric Tremblay of EPFL — had to be rather creative. The light that will be magnified enters the edge of the contact lens, is bounced around four times inside the lens using patterned aluminium mirrors, and then beamed to the edge of the retina at the back of your eyeball. The mirrors magnify the image 2.8 times, but also correct for chromatic aberration, resulting in a surprisingly high fidelity image. To switch between normal and telescopic vision, the central (normal, unmagnified) region of the contact lens has a polarizing filter in front of it — and then the wearer equips a pair of 3D TV spectacles. By switching the polarizing state of the spectacles (a pair of active, liquid crystal Samsung 3D specs in this case), the user can choose between normal and magnified vision.
In case you were wondering, these solutions all primarily exist for one reason: To help restore sight to people with age-related macular degeneration. AMD damages the high-resolution fovea at the center of the retina, but generally the low-resolution outer region (perifovea) still works. Without the fovea, people with AMD can’t make out fine details, such as type on a page. These telescopic spectacles, lenses, and implants focus light onto this outer region, giving people with AMD the ability to make out these details.
The current telescopic contact lens is made out of PMMA, a gas-impermeable polymer that old, uncomfortable contact lenses used to be made of. To bring their lens to market, the researchers will need to switch over to rigid gas permeable (RGP) polymers, which modern, comfortable contact lenses are made from. While these telescopic lenses are obviously intended for people who suffer from AMD, there’s nothing to prevent a healthy person from wearing them and achieving better-than-human (superhuman?) vision.
Vista’s industry share now stands at four
Microsoft’s Home windows eight is now a more well-known working method
compared to reviled Windows Vista, eliminating a source of embarrassment as
Microsoft’s most up-to-date OS gradually proceeds to collect steam.
According to Web Applications’ NetMarketshare tracker, Home windows 8 captured five.ten percent of all desktop methods the company tracks for your month of June. Vista’s industry share now stands at four.sixty two %. Not surprisingly, both of those will need a few months (or several years) right before they move Windows XP and Windows seven, both of which dipped about 50 % a percentage point’s well worth of share to complete the month with 44.37 per cent and 37.17 percent, respectively.
There was excellent information over the browser front in addition: Net Applications also noted that Internet Explorer ten surged 4.26 share factors to complete with thirteen.52 per cent from the desktop industry.
That marked the initial time that IE10, which shipped with Windows 8 (but can also be offered for Windows seven), passed Web Explorer nine.0, which fell three.68 points to 11.71 % in the desktop market place.
Equally quantities go on to verify the momentum for Home windows 8, which has struggled to elevate its head above each third-party operating methods, as well as its possess rivals from the Microsoft nest.
Windows eight passed Mac OS X 10.eight in February. If Home windows eight proceeds to improve its share at its recent pace of about 0.5 proportion details per month-and if Windows XP proceeds to say no at concerning the exact rate-Microsoft would need about 32 months, or until finally about February 2016, for Home windows eight to move Home windows XP.
Analytics organization StatCounter also set Windows eight above Home windows Vista in its worldwide measurements of browser details. StatCounter claimed that Windows 8 captured six.forty four % of all PCs, as opposed to 5.94 % in the starting of June. StatCounter said, on the other hand, that the versions of Mac OS X combined, at eight.fifty two percent, ended up continue to better than Home windows 8.
StatCounter also claimed that Windows 8 passed Vista in June, when Vista share stood at five.4 per cent.
While the divisions among running systems had been relatively clear-cut, analyzing exactly where the different browsers stand needs a bit additional slicing and dicing with the knowledge.
Total, Web Purposes puts IE in a commanding guide, with 56.fifteen p.c with the market place, as opposed to fifty five.98 percent in May-thanks to Microsoft bundling IE with PCs, not surprisingly. Net Applications places Firefox at 19.fifteen %, down from 20.sixty three per cent, and Chrome at seventeen.17 %, down from 15.74 percent.
Incorporate all Chrome variations, even so, as StatCounter does, along with the whole share for Chrome climbs to 42.19 percent, down from the superior of 42.68 p.c a month back. StatCounter places all variations of Firefox five.0 and better at a combined share of 19.14 p.c.
The underside line? Chrome, IE, and Firefox all continue to be practical browser platforms, with ongoing advancements to every.
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According to Web Applications’ NetMarketshare tracker, Home windows 8 captured five.ten percent of all desktop methods the company tracks for your month of June. Vista’s industry share now stands at four.sixty two %. Not surprisingly, both of those will need a few months (or several years) right before they move Windows XP and Windows seven, both of which dipped about 50 % a percentage point’s well worth of share to complete the month with 44.37 per cent and 37.17 percent, respectively.
There was excellent information over the browser front in addition: Net Applications also noted that Internet Explorer ten surged 4.26 share factors to complete with thirteen.52 per cent from the desktop industry.
That marked the initial time that IE10, which shipped with Windows 8 (but can also be offered for Windows seven), passed Web Explorer nine.0, which fell three.68 points to 11.71 % in the desktop market place.
Equally quantities go on to verify the momentum for Home windows 8, which has struggled to elevate its head above each third-party operating methods, as well as its possess rivals from the Microsoft nest.
Windows eight passed Mac OS X 10.eight in February. If Home windows eight proceeds to improve its share at its recent pace of about 0.5 proportion details per month-and if Windows XP proceeds to say no at concerning the exact rate-Microsoft would need about 32 months, or until finally about February 2016, for Home windows eight to move Home windows XP.
Analytics organization StatCounter also set Windows eight above Home windows Vista in its worldwide measurements of browser details. StatCounter claimed that Windows 8 captured six.forty four % of all PCs, as opposed to 5.94 % in the starting of June. StatCounter said, on the other hand, that the versions of Mac OS X combined, at eight.fifty two percent, ended up continue to better than Home windows 8.
StatCounter also claimed that Windows 8 passed Vista in June, when Vista share stood at five.4 per cent.
While the divisions among running systems had been relatively clear-cut, analyzing exactly where the different browsers stand needs a bit additional slicing and dicing with the knowledge.
Total, Web Purposes puts IE in a commanding guide, with 56.fifteen p.c with the market place, as opposed to fifty five.98 percent in May-thanks to Microsoft bundling IE with PCs, not surprisingly. Net Applications places Firefox at 19.fifteen %, down from 20.sixty three per cent, and Chrome at seventeen.17 %, down from 15.74 percent.
Incorporate all Chrome variations, even so, as StatCounter does, along with the whole share for Chrome climbs to 42.19 percent, down from the superior of 42.68 p.c a month back. StatCounter places all variations of Firefox five.0 and better at a combined share of 19.14 p.c.
The underside line? Chrome, IE, and Firefox all continue to be practical browser platforms, with ongoing advancements to every.
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