andrewducker | Interesting Links for 06-02-2017

Engineers develop 'smart glasses' that automatically focus on what wearer sees: (tags: glasses Technology )
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Make of Heaven a Hell: On the First Season of The Good Place (Not seen it yet, really want to): (tags: tv comedy religion death )
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FBI Finds White Supremacists Infiltrated Law Enforcement Agencies: (tags: usa fascism racism police )
Black woman told to straighten hair if she wants Harrods job: (tags: jobs women race uk )
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Harrods was notorious when I worked nearby in Knightsbridge in '99. When the owner visited and walked around the shop floor, the supervisors hid any black workers because he'd point at them and demand they be fired because their 'faces didn't fit'.

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I like that idea of glasses that can be programmatically adjusted.

My eyes' degree of astigmatism seems to change slightly on some days, and a theoretical solution I considered was glasses with round lenses (like Harry Potter), which you could manually rotate to the appropriate degree/axis for the astigmatism. That wouldn't let you adjust the sphere/cylinder values though.

Glasses that could automatically test how much correction you need for both near and far, and astigmatism, and then apply the correction dynamically in real time, would be great. Someday maybe they'll be able to do the same with contact lenses, and then with implantable lenses.

Or maybe they'll find a way to keep our biological eyes & lenses in good condition.

Very cool, if true

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