Gadgets: Shadey Contacts
By Jay GarrettHere we are once more – faced with a joyful catch-up of titbits from the shiny world of gadgety loveliness.
What have I got to share with you 12 days in to the 11th month?
Well – howsabout some speakers? You can have surround sound coming out of what looks like an archery target, one that looks like a bird cage, one that clips onto your laptop screen or one that will dwarf the iPod that’s docked to it.
There have been a couple of female singers associated with new Nokia mobiles since we last met.
Rhianna is to perform live and this will be streamed on the Nokia-a-a-eh-eh blog on the very same day that the spanky looking X6 becomes available.
Not to be outdone: Blonde pop warbler, Pixie Lott, just loves the girly chic-ness of the Nokia Illuvial range. Fact!
Still on that theme – LG’s new Pop (see that? Phones and pop – sometimes I amaze myself!) blower is not only relatively inexpensive; it has a touchscreen and a solar recharger!
Mozilla’s Firefox is now five years old! Keep a look out for its portable sibling Fennec soon.
If you still see people wearing Reactolite glasses and think that the transition from clear to dark lenses is a real cool thing then hold onto your shorts!
There’s now similar trickery for those who wear contact lenses!!
It’s true – thanks to some clever nano-engineering, these photochromic lenses perform even better than their traditional, frame-rimmed counterparts.
The Director of the Singapore based IBN (Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology), Jackie Ying, claims that the contact lenses adapt faster thanks to the use of a network of really tiny tunnels distributed evenly throughout the lens – and who am I to argue?
These tunnels contain the dye that automatically adjusts to the sunlight; the structure itself allows more of this dye to exist in the same area, granting the sensitivity and those speed benefits.
Apparently transition sunglasses take a minute or two to change whereas the IBN proudly boast “Our response time is 10 to 20 seconds.”
Hmmm……. imagine your eyes turning completely black when at the beach.
This is going to freak people out isn’t it?
Mozilla’s Firefox is now five years old! Keep a look out for its portable sibling Fennec soon.
If you still see people wearing Reactolite glasses and think that the transition from clear to dark lenses is a real cool thing then hold onto your shorts!
There’s now similar trickery for those who wear contact lenses!!
It’s true – thanks to some clever nano-engineering, these photochromic lenses perform even better than their traditional, frame-rimmed counterparts.
The Director of the Singapore based IBN (Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology), Jackie Ying, claims that the contact lenses adapt faster thanks to the use of a network of really tiny tunnels distributed evenly throughout the lens – and who am I to argue?
These tunnels contain the dye that automatically adjusts to the sunlight; the structure itself allows more of this dye to exist in the same area, granting the sensitivity and those speed benefits.
Apparently transition sunglasses take a minute or two to change whereas the IBN proudly boast “Our response time is 10 to 20 seconds.”
Hmmm……. imagine your eyes turning completely black when at the beach.
This is going to freak people out isn’t it?
