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AUTOFOCUS Researchers from Caltech and the University of California, San Francisco, have devised an implantable lens for cataract patients that can be recalibrated weeks after surgery. The lens contains a photosensitive compound that can be activated by a tiny beam of UV light. "We can make precise power adjustments after the lens is in place, the wound is healed and the eye is stabilized," says UCSF's Dr. Daniel Schwartz. The experimental lens might even lead to an alternative to LASIK surgery. --By David Bjerklie...
...People will beam their flow of sensory experience on the Web, so you can plug in and be someone else, a la Being John Malkovich. We will be able to expand human intelligence." --Ray Kurzweil
...archaeologists understand the significance of this Kama Sutra in stone, but Anoop Jain, a temple guide, has his own theory. "People were becoming too holy," he explains as he directs a beam of sunlight with a heart-shaped hand mirror toward a pair of stone lovers engaged in a passionate kiss. "They were going to the forest to meditate, and no one was getting married." So the King, suggests Jain, commissioned the carving of erotic scenes into temple walls for "inspiration." It will never be known if the King's pro-family program proved fruitful. Though mighty warriors, the Chandelas...
...carry snapshots of your dog or your daughters is in--what else?--your cell phone. Attach the Sony Ericsson T68i phone ($300 to $400, available this summer) to a special snap-on camera module, and it can click and store up to 200 digital images. You can even beam pictures to other T68i phones or e-mail them to a PC. With so much to look at, who has time to talk...
...shot down Storrow Drive like a beam of light coursing from a laser...