| Souped-Up Contact Lenses Promise On-Demand Bionic Eyesight
Potential uses include virtual displays for pilots, video-game projections and telescopic vision for soldiers. A working prototype of a lens-embedded antenna that draws power for the device from radio frequencies has also been created. The next steps are to build a version that can display several pixels—and then to test it on a person. The UW team uses a technique called self-assembly to manufacture the eyewear. Researchers dust a specially designed contact lens with microscale components that automatically bond to predetermined receptor sites. The shape of each component dictates where it attaches.
“There's a lot of room to expand," Babak Parviz, an assistant professor of electrical engineering at UW, says of the technology. “You can let your imagination run wild." .
Colorado-based firm buys Citynet wholesale division
A Colorado-based company announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the wholesale division of communications provider Citynet. Zayo Group, headquartered in Louisville, Colo., said Citynet Fiber Network - the wholesale division of Citynet - will become a part of Zayo Bandwidth, Zayo Group's fiber-based bandwidth business unit. Zayo said the purchase is expected to close in early 2008. The value of the transaction was not disclosed. Entrepreneurs Paul Helmick and Mark Burdette established Citynet in Charleston in 1994 as an Internet service provider. In 1998 the company merged with MarCom, a Fairmont Web site designer. City Holding Co., the corporate parent of City National Bank, bought Citynet in 1998. City Holding sold the company in 2001 to James Martin, who had headed the company when it was a unit of the bank holding company.
NORM: IRS probe of clubs has some on edge
Jay Mohr, above, and Nikki Cox, below, are among the celebrities who have seen Bette Midler's show at The Colosseum.
Bette Midler, shown Wednesday following her premiere performance in "The Showgirl Must Go On" at Caesars Palace, isn't being shown on The Colosseum's LED screen, audience members complain.
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Category: Offshore outsourcing
Between the Lines Latest Post | Last 10 Posts | Archives Chrysler outsources parts of IT to Tata Posted in: General Outsourcing Offshore outsourcing Chrysler, which recently became an independent company after separating from Daimler, has outsourced its IT to Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) in "a multi-year contract" worth about $120 million. The automaker is in the process of being remade by CEO Robert Nardelli, who was technology savvy as leader of Home Depot. This time around Nardelli appears to be leaning on outsourcing its IT in contrast to his approach at Home Depot. Under the pact, Tata will provide support, maintenance and services that "will encompass a portion of the functional areas within Chrysler, such as Sales and Marketing and Shared Services." posted by Larry Dignan February 20, 2008 @ 5:50 am Last 10 posts: EIC Podcast: iPhone and business; Mix '08 wrap; Facebook's new hire (03-07) Sprint and T-Mobile: A disaster in waiting (03-07) Digg: Better off with Microsoft or Google? (03-07) Smart badges? We don't need no stinkin' smart badges.
Metropolitan Opera Extends Its Populist Mission
As of this month, the Metropolitan Opera is bringing its populist message to a new audience: schoolchildren. Last Saturday, the Met transmitted "Romo et Juliette," starring Anna Netrebko, live via satellite to high-definition screens at five New York City public high schools. Some 2,000 students and family members attended for free. On New Year's Day, the Met will transmit to the same schools its new production of "Hansel and Gretel." Today, 2,500 students will spend their last day of school at the Met's first student open house, watching the final dress rehearsal of "Hansel and Gretel" and learning about how the sets and costumes are made. This outreach to public-school students is a new element in general manager Peter Gelb's multipronged effort to bring opera back into the cultural mainstream.
March 2008
Some new news to share about autism today. At a press conference this morning, a Georgia family will describe how the government has conceded that a vaccine "contributed" to their daughter's autism symptoms. The family will receive compensation from a federal vaccine court.That doesn't mean the federal government agrees that vaccines cause autism (click here for more on autism). Nor does this 9-year-old girl's case mean the 4,900 other families in the vaccine court have won their claim that vaccines resulted in their children's autism. That case continues.Advocates who see a vaccine-autism link point to Hannah Poling's case as a big victory for their cause - evidence of the potentially disastrous side effects of vaccines.Within 48 hours after receiving her vaccinations, Hannah, then 19 months old and by all accounts a normal little girl, developed a high fever, inconsolable crying and some signs of regression, including difficulty walking and speaking.Over the next several months, she had countless visits with doctors finally culminating in the diagnosis of encephalopathy with features of autism spectrum disorder.
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