Plastic Cornea Restores Vision to Blind Dog
	It is said that dogs live in a world of scents. Imagine that, in humans, the olfactory mucosa is about 10 square centimeters, and in dogs of 150! Their hearing is also sharper than ours and they detect ultrasounds (the bats' sonar must be a nightmare for them). But this does not mean vision is not important for them. Dixie, a 7-year-old Mountain Cur from Runnells, Iowa, became less active and adventurous since she went blind. Now, ... [read more >>]
	14 May 2008, 16:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

New Type of Vision: It Detects Circular Polarized Light
	There are various types of vision, from the one detecting visible light to the others detecting ultraviolet light and linear polarized light. A new research published in the journal "Current Biology" describes a fourth type of vision never seen before in any animal: mantis shrimps (Stomatopods), a type of sea crustaceans, detect circular polarized light. Stomatopods, which are not real shrimps, are characterized by their vivid co ... [read more >>]
	21 March 2008, 03:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How Does Your Computer Impact Your Health?
	Your life is made of web chatting, navigation, PC games and the list is endless. Some spend hours and even days without moving from the front of the computer; shower and food are skipped and only physiological needs force them for a few seconds out. But do you think that so much staring at a computer screen does not affect you? Here is just a part of the effect: the "computer vision syndrome" comprising tired dry eyes, blurred vi ... [read more >>]
	19 March 2008, 15:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Men Ogle at Women One Year of Their Lifetime!
	This is another investigation that will make women call men as being pigs. But this is the naked truth: men spend about one year of their lives staring at women. And not their women. On average, men look at 11 different women daily (they found them attractive) and each of them receives about two minutes of their attention. This translates into an overall 5.5 days annually of gazing at women and on a lifetime this goes to 350 days. But l ... [read more >>]
	25 February 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

New Lenses Give Superhuman Vision and Immerse You Into a Virtual World!
	One day you could say "Hasta la vista, baby!" while zooming in on far-off scenes. Virtual displays could correct vision-impairment, drive holographic control panels and could be even a mean of navigating the Web. A team at the University of Washington could bring to reality this SF technology, operating at microscopic scales to add to contact lens an imprinted electronic circuit and lights. "Looking throug ... [read more >>]
	18 January 2008, 03:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

What Does a Dog See At Night?
	Dogs have evolved from wolves. And wolves are nocturnal predators; you can see that very well by analyzing the behavior of stray dog packs. The same dogs that seem very quiet and calm during the day will attack any human passing through their "territory" at night. Indeed, at night or in a forest, eyesight does not help much during the hunt, but smell does. Dogs "see" a world of smells. In humans, the olfactory mucos ... [read more >>]
	09 November 2007, 06:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Modern Humans Preserve Stone Age Instincts
	We live in an urban jungle, but lurking dangers differ from those found in nature. Like Stone Age hunter-gatherers, modern people are still more capable of spotting predators and prey, instead of what can really kill us in a city. A new research shows that humans are still much more skilled to observe other people and animals than non-living things, with all the dangers they pose to us in the modern, urbanized environment. This enhance ... [read more >>]
	05 October 2007, 02:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

New Night Vision for Intelligent Cars
	Humans are not made for traveling during nighttime: around 42% of fatal car crashes happen at night, taking into consideration that at this time there is 60% less traffic. There's little visual acuity and field of vision at night provided by illumination from the headlights. Now a team at the Department of Computer Architecture and Technology at the University of Granada has created an electronic system that significantl ... [read more >>]
	28 September 2007, 04:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Brain Center of the 3D Vision Has Been Found!
	Have you ever wondered why we don’t see the world as if it were a movie on a TV screen? Many mammals do have a 2D vision. Nevertheless, from shooting or juggling to baseball or driving, hand-eye coordination requires a three dimensional image of the environment. But it was not known how our brains get the 3D picture from 2D retinal images. A new research seems to have detected the brain region linked to 3D visual processing. ... [read more >>]
	03 August 2007, 06:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

What Makes a Good Baseball Hitter?
	Perhaps the aspiration of a not so literate father is to see how his son becomes a great hitter. Well, a new research shows that it is not all about training, but genes too play a role in tracking balls and other moving objects, as revealed by a new research. "Our results show that individuals vary tremendously in this ability to lock their eyes onto a moving object, called smooth pursuit, and that this variation relates strongly ... [read more >>]
	25 July 2007, 04:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Five Stupid Beliefs About the Eyes
	The human eye is one of nature's wonders. An adult eye has about 24 mm (1 inch) in diameter and about 12 million photoreceptors (light sensitive cells) and six muscles that move the ocular sphere with such a precision that it allows the eye to follow moving objects. Like a camera, the eye has a diaphragm (called iris), whose opening degree adapts to the brightness of the environment. The light rays that cross the opening of the ir ... [read more >>]
	12 July 2007, 13:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Friendly Wireless Router from Belkin
	A new wireless router comes from Belkin, it is called the N1 Vision and it has an interactive network display. As far as I know, this is the only router available on market that dropped the confusing blinking LEDs in favor of a fully fledged display. N1 Vision is packed into a sleek and elegant case and it of ... [read more >>]
	12 July 2007, 03:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How Does It Feel to Look at a Tornado From the Inside?
	Have you ever wondered what does a tornado look like form the inside? Unfortunately, the few people who have experienced being inside a tornado or a storm are not happy talking about it. Normally, it would be a bumpy ride and a major death risk, to stare at a storm from inside its eye, and not many volunteers can be found to do it, or to live to tell the tale. Now, a group of Japanese researchers have come up with a new, unique tec ... [read more >>]
	14 May 2007, 16:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How Can We See a Continuous Picture Being All Temporary Blind?
	You cannot stare at a girl/boy or a painting, because your eyeballs move wildly to get shots of the various traits in the surrounding picture Eyeballs are known to stay still fixing on a spot for 0, 3 - 2 seconds; in between they shake around for up to 50 milliseconds, a moment when vision is stopped, installing a momentary blindness. With all the crazy movement and temporary blindness, how can we see a complete and uninterr ... [read more >>]
	26 April 2007, 05:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Bionic Vision Could Bypass Eyes
	The bionic eye would be the solution for the vision impaired people in the technology era. But a new research shows that bringing back vision to blind people could completely bypass the eyes. The brain visual cortex was found to understand electric signals received directly from a video device like the visual neuronal signals. The problem with the prosthetic devices (bionic eyes) is that they have to stimulate what's left of the ... [read more >>]
	25 April 2007, 04:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Sharks See in Colors!...
	These efficient killers have not changed since the dinosaur era. They present sophisticated sensory organs yet scientists believed sharks and their relatives, rays (which are nothing more than flattened sharks) are color-blind. Now a team at University of Queensland has revealed that stingrays could be able to see in color while the blue-spotted maskray possesses all the anatomical traits necessary for color vision. “See ... [read more >>]
	11 April 2007, 08:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Blue Eyes for the Winter, Light-Brown for the Summer
	Santa Claus will never come late. Because scientists discovered Rudolph can take care of his eyes very well even without sunglasses. Scientists have found that reindeers possess an unusual physiologic mechanism to deal with polar light extremes: they change their eye color and structure for summer and winter, which in the Arctic translates to permanent summer sunlight and 24-hour darkness in winter. The British-Norweg ... [read more >>]
	15 March 2007, 11:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia