Zap your brown eyes blue.
A California medical company says they have developed the technology to turn your pretty brown eyes into deep baby blues, like Elijah Wood’s.
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Revolutionary eye operation could allow millions of middle-aged people to abandon their reading glasses
A revolutionary new treatment, involving an operation to insert a plastic implant into the eye, could allow millions to abandon their spectacles.
Needing to wear reading glasses is one of the signs of reaching middle-age.
Humans can sense the Earth’s magnetic field
The ability to see Earth’s magnetic field may also reside in human eyes.
Humans might be able to innately detect Earth’s magnetic field without even realizing it, thanks to a compound found in our eyes. Or we may have been able to do so some time in the past.
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Kid Couch Potatoes At Increased Risk of Heart Problems
Children who watched a large amount of television were found to have narrowed arteries behind the eyes.
For children as young as six spending too much time watching TV or playing on computers increases risk of heart problems later life, scientists warn.
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Computer Vision Syndrome Sweeping the Country
The eyes have it – Computer Vision Syndrome!
If you find yourself looking in the mirror at the end of a long day only to see the bloodshot eyes of a crackhead staring back at you, it may be because you are addicted to something —your digital devices.
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Eye Doctors Warn of Retinal Injuries From High-Powered Green Lasers
Eye damage caused by a high-powered green laser.
So far, the reports have been scattered and anecdotal. But eye doctors around the world are warning that recent cases of teenagers who suffered eye damage while playing with high-powered green laser pointers are likely to be just the first of many.
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Street Artist Wins $100,000 TED Prize
27-year-old Parisian street artist JR just won the $100,000 TED prize for 2011
TED, the progressive California nonprofit that brings luminaries of technology, entertainment, and design together for the sake of world betterment, has made an unexpected choice for its seventh annual $100,000 TED Prize: JR, a 27-year-old street artist who, under a mysterious cloak of semi-anonymity, has been pasting monumental black-and-white photographs across the urban infrastructure of the world’s poorest slums…
(more award winning art after jump…)
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