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Prescription lenses are coming to Google Glass
07 December 13 by Duncan Geere Tweet !function (d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (!d.getElementById(id)) { js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = “//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js”; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); } } (document, “script”, “twitter-wjs”);, wired.co.uk

Brian Mati­ash, a com­mu­ni­ty man­ag­er for Google, has post­ed (and quick­ly removed) a pair of pho­tos that show Google Glass being used with pre­scrip­tion lens­es.

Some­where around 60 per­cent of peo­ple in the devel­op­ing world wear…

I would be tempted to get some of these if the price was right. http://flip.it/6RFkA

By Amy Shira Teitel, popsci.com

Design­ing facil­i­ties for astro­nauts to use in space is one of the most basic con­sid­er­a­tions because any­one left any­where long enough is going to have to use a wash­room. But it’s more com­pli­cat­ed than you might think. When the…

A brief history of pooping…. In….. Space.

Graphene - the new wonder material
David Larousserie, theguardian.com

Scientific interest rolls in for a material that is more solid than steel and a better conductor than copper

The molecule is priceless but it is not a matter of cost – a few hundred dollars per kilo. The value lies in its potential. The molecule…

Iceberg the size of Singapore breaks from Antarctica to roam the ocean
theverge.com

NASA’s Earth Obser­va­to­ry says that a vast chunk of ice the size of Sin­ga­pore has bro­ken away from Antarc­ti­ca, and may soon start drift­ing in the South­ern Ocean. Named B-31 by the US Nation­al Ice Cen­ter, the slab of ice is 21 miles by 1…

Huh, I thought the post office was looking for more days off, now it partners with Amazon to work everyday.

Nice job Amazon. I wouldn’t have expected the fire to top an Apple retna product in display quality, and not just because I am an accused Apple fan boy. I gave my wife an og Kindle fire and was just not that impressed with the build quality. I wasn’t aware the new batch was such an upgrade,

SafeFlame welding torch turns water into fire
Ben Coxworth, gizmag.com

The pressurized acetylene and propane gas used in welding and related tasks is highly flammable, and thus very dangerous. You know what isn’t flammable, though? Water. Bearing that in mind, the European Union-funded SafeFlame consortium has develo…

Welding with water…. Wow.