Contact lenses that can take pictures and video? Who would have thought? Actually, the people at Sony did and now have filed a patent for it. They claim that it can record video and even play it back for users. All with the blink of an eye. Sony calls them Smart Eyes.
Xcel Energy’s first solely owned wind farm
Although Xcel Energy has been in the wind farm business since 1998, the wind project deal between Xcel Energy and Vestas (one of the top three wind turbine manufacturers in the world) announced on April 12th to a group of executives from Vestas, their suppliers and members of the American Wind Energy Association, will be the first wind project that Xcel Energy will own. [Read more…]
Desalination: Science, Engineering, and Alchemy by Seth M. Siegel
(Excerpt from “Let There Be Water: Israel’s Solution for a Water-Starved World by Seth M. Siegel (Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press; September 15, 2015)
The assassination of President John F. Kennedy occurred two weeks before the Weizmann Institute’s 1963 fund-raising gala in Manhattan. Kennedy had been announced as the keynote speaker and with his sudden, violent death, the event’s organizers cancelled it. Two months later, the dinner was held. To the organization’s good fortune, Lyndon Johnson, Kennedy’s successor, agreed to take the slain president’s speaking slot at the rescheduled event. [Read more…]
New Wind Power plan
According to the Denver Business Journal, Xcel Energy will build a 600 megawatt wind farm in eastern Colorado that will be created using 100 percent Vestas wind turbines.
Vestas Wind Systems, of the world biggest wind turbine manufacturers has four factories in Colorado building towers, blades and nacelles.
The project will cover several counties in eastern Colorado and would be Colorado’s largest wind farm. Vestas has nearly 4,000 employees in Colorado.
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More Comfortable Contact Lenses by Howard Wedgle
The Stanford Report, released on March 22, 2016, reported that chemical engineers at Stanford have discovered mechanical properties of the tear film on the eye’s surface that can be used to manufacture contact lenses that more closely mimics the eye.
As a part-time contact lens wearer, I can tell you that after wearing contacts for better than 12 hours, the lenses and the eyes get extremely dry. At that point, I can’t wait to take them out.
Stanford researchers hope to alleviate this pain by both advancing the understanding of how natural tears keep our eyes comfortable and developing a machine for designing better contact lenses. The report is a little technical, but the outcome of the report is a device that mimics the surface of the eye. The machine, called the Interfacial Dewetting and Drainage Optical Platform or i-DDrOP, reproduces a tear film on the surface of a contact lens.
ColoradoGrandparent.com will try to find out who will be manufacturing this lens.
Email and video conferencing for the uninitiated-by Daniel Rosenblum
After years of putting it off my Uncle decided to finally have knee replacement surgery. There were a number of practical things to take care of during his rehabilitation. In my family I am known as the handy-man, both technological and for home repairs. I received a message from him on a Friday morning asking if I could take a look outside his apartment and see if a railing could be installed. [Read more…]
Protecting Your Privacy on Facebook-by Joyce Feustel
Protecting Your Privacy on Facebook
Have you ever reviewed the privacy settings on your Facebook account?
Depending on your personal and business circumstances, you may want to make your Facebook account settings more restrictive than the default settings. [Read more…]
Don’t Fear the Smartphone
In our first podcast, Colorado Grandparent‘s own Howard Wedgle talks with retired broadcaster Gary Tessler about smartphones. Is it time for you to move from your flip phone to a smartphone? How the smartphone will be your new best friend.
How to let your child’s creativity thrive
Don’t give kids too many rules. Help kids discover the joy in learning. Introduce kids to a variety of topics.
This past weekend the New York Times featured a brilliant op-ed, “How to Raise a Creative Child. Step One: Back Off,” by Adam Grant. It highlighted several values we work toward at Tinybop.
Don’t give kids too many rules. Let them figure things out on their own.
Grant writes:
So what does it take to raise a creative child? One study compared the families of children who were rated among the most creative 5 percent in their school system with those who were not unusually creative. The parents of ordinary children had an average of six rules, like specific schedules for homework and bedtime. Parents of highly creative children had an average of fewer than one rule.
