4 entries found with tag eye.

How to prevent eye strain and RSI

If you spend a lot of the time in front of a computer screen, you might appreciate a little piece of software called WorkRave. It's a free, timer-based app that works out when you need to take a break and also suggests exercises you can do to reduce any eye/muscle strain and generally relax a bit!

Tags: health, RSI, eye

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Buying contact lenses online

Not so long ago, a month's supply of contact lenses would cost you an arm and a leg. Nowadays, however, visually disadvantaged folk like myself can save a bit of money by getting our contact lenses online for a reasonable price. I've noticed that laser eye surgery is also becoming ever more affordable... may have to check that out!

Related: vision, contact lenses, laser, eye

Virtual Ryder Cup

The Ryder Cup is great, especially when Europe wins. But to be honest, watching golf is difficult sometimes as the ball is so small. It's frustrating as there's no reason why it can't be made a lot more fun. Here's an idea that I hope some company like Virtual Spectator or the Hawk Eye people might implement sometime soon. Now Hawk Eye are the people who track cricket balls and more recently tennis balls using high speed cameras and Virtual Spectator are the guys who broadcast the Volvo Ocean Race and World Rally Championship races over the web in virtual form. So the idea is, you download a program with a 3d window a bit like google earth and instead of getting some TV images, you watch what's happening in 3D. Now, if you could track a golf ball the way Hawk Eye can and work out its position, you could broadcast the proceedings virtually. Watch from and control your own virtual camera angles, rather than the TV's. In fact you could even make it into a sort of video game. Users could try to make the putt themselves from where Tiger has just landed on the green. Show lots of golf stats, show the live TV at the same time, let users look at any archive rounds golfers made in previous years.

There are various other sports for which this sort of thing could be done. Perhaps it's the way sport will be broadcast in the future! Hope so.

Security checks

osama after plastic surgery I had to take some Taiwanese clients on the (British Airways) London Eye yesterday. We all loved it, it's fantastic. I took some photos too. It's great the way they make out you're actually going on a real aeroplane, checking in etc. Mind you they did do a security check and everything, and each capsule was scanned by people with metal detectors before people can get on. The check on my bag wasn't very thorough. Maybe they're just looking for people who look a bit like this guy (inset).

Tags: London Eye, photo