‘Gecko vision’ could open way to futuristic cameras, contact lenses

September 9th, 2009 Crime cameras blanket city in Pa. Amish countryLANCASTER, Pa.

July 10th, 2009 LONDON - The futuristic city to come up on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi will meet its entire energy requirements from renewable sources, producing neither carbon dioxide nor waste. Masdar City is to be constructed on a six square km area, 30 km east of the capital Abu Dhabi.

May 20th, 2009 LONDON - Nigel Cook had to hand back his driving licence when his sight deteriorated but a new procedure has enabled him to see so well that he is now allowed to drive again. Cook, a former police officer, suffered from macular degeneration, a condition that obscured his central vision with a dark fog.

May 6th, 2009 KOLKATA - A New York-based freelance photographer says he was beaten up and his camera and lenses were damaged by Trinamool Congress activists in West Bengal's trouble-torn Nandigram after he photographed them. Lensman Jay Mandal, who contributes to leading global newspapers and publications like the Washington Post, says he has suffered injuries, including on his right shoulder and his knees.

May 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - In a bid to encourage youth to come out and vote, Bausch and Lomb has announced it will give free contact lenses to students who exercise their franchise. Under the Bausch and Lomb's 'Vote for Your Vision' promotion, 5,000 students from Delhi and Chennai, where polling is slated for May 7 and 13, respectively, would get a free pair of Bausch and Lomb daily disposable contact lenses.

May 3rd, 2009 For the first time in the country, a very unique, futuristic and nextgen art show “Art of DC” by Dilip Chabbria Mumbai January 27, 2009: Dilip Chabbria the world rennouned auto car designer will showcase his artistic talent by hosting an exhibition of one of its kind, for the very first time in the country, in Mumbai. The Art Show will comprise of both paintings and sculptures and will be exhibited in Crystal Room, Taj Mahal Hotel.

April 28th, 2009 LONDON - If you thought it was only Spiderman who could glide on any surface with no apparent gravitational pull, then it's time to get out of fiction and look closer to reality - scientists have created robots that can scale walls and hang off the ceiling just like geckos. Metin Sitti and Ozgur Unver of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, have claimed that their new robots - a sticky-tracked wall climber and a 16-legged ceiling walker - could tackle many jobs in the home including painting ceilings and clearing cobwebs.

April 27th, 2009 LONDON - John Lennon's signature look with grandpa-style spectacles happened by accident, a Spanish Beatles researcher has claimed. ccording to expert Adolfo Iglesias, the Beatle adopted the image during his six-week stay in the city of Almeria, Spain in 1966.

April 4th, 2009 LONDON - Looks like Paris Hilton is too much inspired by outer space, for the socialite was recently seen wearing a space-age style outfit for a swimwear shoot. The heiress was spotted frolicking on the balcony of a hotel in Santa Monica, California, donning a skimpy and strappy rubber gear.

April 4th, 2009 HAMBURG - Large, colourful and flashy. Sunglass fashion this summer is definitely conspicuous.

March 21st, 2009 WASHINGTON - Children wearing contact lenses feel better about their looks, their athletic abilities and acceptance by friends, than counterparts wearing glasses, researchers have said. The results of a study suggest that even eight-year-old near-sighted children reap social benefits from wearing contact lenses instead of glasses.

February 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Security solutions provider Vision Group Sunday launched a mobile surveillance unit, which will help security officials quickly deploy surveillance cameras in emergency situations. At an international security expo here, the Vision Group unveiled the Mobile Surveillance Unit, which it termed as the first ever such facility in the country.

January 27th, 2009 SYDNEY - Seeing and flying like a dragonfly could be the key to developing highly versatile micro-aerial vehicles. The extraordinary flying ability of the dragonfly has been the subject of ongoing research by Richard Berry from the Centre for Visual Sciences at Australian National University (ANU).

January 11th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Women are not the only ones to fret about looks on their wedding day. Men too have joined the bandwagon - so much so that a majority of them prefer to discard their spectacles and wear contact lenses instead.

January 7th, 2009 SYDNEY - Excessive exposure to light causes deterioration and loss of vision gradually over life, new research says. 'There are about 150 million light-sensitive cells - known as photoreceptors - in each eye.