"It's like watching TV on a screen with just 60 pixels."
And it's not for everyone. The optic nerve must be intact, for example.
So ... not perhaps not what you expected when you read the heading. But it's a start & allows enough vision for the patient to move around. Better than total blindness.
http://www.dvice.com/2013-2-14/partially-blind-can-now-officially-get-bionic-eyes / Second Sight's Argus II bionic eye officially approved for use U.S.A. U.S. US USA Food and Drug Administration FDA advisory panel benefits helping cure partial blindness outweighed possible safety problems post-surgical infections artificial retina embedded electrodes surgically implanted into the eye pair glasses equipped camera visual processor video camera captures footage images processor relays feed bionic eye allowing impaired wearer to see doesn't restore complete vision /
Monday 18 February 2013
Tesla vs New York Times battle obscures the EV affordability issue
Credit: Tesla/ CleanTechnica
http://cleantechnica.com/2013/02/17/tesla-vs-new-york-times-fight-ignores-the-money-issue/ / consensus electric vehicles are ready for prime time John Broder not ready for electric vehicles affordability Obama Administration $20 million new funding to develop affordable EV batteries driver’s lack of common sense expense involved in engineering high-range batteries public and private EV stakeholders utilities technology tech companies Google major fleet owners FedEx manufacturers automotive sector workplace EV charging national online database for EV charging station locations online guide for communities readiness /
Best Cydia Themes: iOS 6 WinterBoard themes for the iPhone
Credit: Boss.iOS/ Gotta Be Mobile
https://www.gottabemobile.com/best-cydia-themes-winterboard-ios-6/ / evasi0n jailbreake Cydia apps themes completely change the look of the iPhone users customize iPhone 5, 4S 4 3GS optimized Retina Display iPad iOS 6 free replacing many icons theme matching icons ThemeIt ayecon home screen lock many apps CarbonX HD wallpapers Fifty Foot Shadows HD tweak tweaks moving background images ARC’d HD Jaku Glasklart HD LeviathanHaz3 Boss.iOS /
Cell phone tracking system reveals how traffic jams start
Boston-area roads. Red areas are the biggest sources of drivers. Yellow is next, then green, dark blue, and purple.
Credit: MIT/ Ars Technica
Amazingly, 98% of roads are under capacity in peak periods. Traffic jams are caused when a small number of drivers in key neighborhoods make intensive use of the critical remaining 2% of roads. On these critical roads, problems arise & then ripple outwards across the entire road system.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/02/cell-phone-tracking-system-reveals-how-traffic-jams-start/ / Smartphones changed the way we drive going GPS-assisted GPS assisted directions real-time information traffic jams help eliminate traffic jams warning goal study mobile cell phone records data track drivers vehicle movements identify sources of traffic MIT UC-Berkeley UC Berkeley UCB analyzed cell phone records Boston-area commuters call logs towers used to transmit calls researchers trace each individual commute, anonymously from origin destination most detailed maps of urban traffic patterns ever constructed journal Scientific Reports, U.S. Census Bureau travel diaries Boston San Francisco few drivers 98 percent below traffic capacity backups these roads ripple outward, causing traffic to snarl across the Hub drivers from those areas make particularly intensive use of the problematic roads in the system problem neighborhoods might be the key alternatives public transportation carpooling flex time and working from home problem areas /
Three months with Microsoft's Office 365
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6718/microsoft-office-365-review / Windows Office 2013 experience RT form 15 Consumer Preview major change subscription-based subscription based model still buy Office traditional retail boxed edition standalone license four different options Home & Student Word Excel PowerPoint OneNote Home & Business Outlook Professional Publisher Access volume-channel only Professional Plus InfoPath and Lync large businesses paying yearly basis multi-device licensing cloud storage naming scheme here latest version Office suite Office 365 subscription service Office 2013 applications Home Premium University with 20GB of SkyDrive storage 60 Skype minutes multiple device installation sleek system leveraged seamless experience cloud-based document storage backup fee is a bit ambitious, but the University edition at $79.99 for four years is actually a pretty great deal consumer product value devices licenses install Microsoft ID occupation pricing scheme setup executable .dmg Mac Macintosh Apple downloaded serial number no DVD-based install purely digital distribution installation tasks background /
Plimer & the merry band of fake experts
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/business-spectator/plimer-and-the-merry-band-of-fake-experts/news-story/fde33857b97b2d66cb72387199132292 / global warming climate change CO2 carbon dioxide greenhouse gas /
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