One-Eyed Blog

everything you wanted and didn’t want to know about losing an eye

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Since my wife has one eye this blog caught my attention.  And with all due respect, WifeGeeding is the best looking one-eyed lady I know.

I find her latest post quite interesting.

Call For Engineers

I am attempting to recreate my eye with the help of a miniature camera implant in my prosthetic / artificial eye. The intraocular installation of an eye-cam will substitute for the field of vision of my left eye that I lost in 2005 from a car accident. While my prosthetic is an excellent aesthetic replacement, I am interested in capitalizing on the current advancement of technology to enhance the abilities of my prosthesis for an augmented reality.

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Georgia Baptists refuse gifts from church with woman pastor

JONESBORO, Ga. (ABP)—The Georgia Baptist Convention has decided to refuse gifts from a historic member church that last year called a woman as pastor.

Messengers to the annual meeting approved a policy change authorizing convention leaders not to accept funds from churches “not in cooperation and harmony with the approved work and purpose” of the convention.

A report of an administrative committee recommending the change said it was proposed “as a result of questions raised regarding First Baptist Church of Decatur, who has a woman as senior pastor.”

The Georgia Baptist Convention defines membership as “messengers from cooperating Baptist churches.” A cooperating church is one that is in “harmony and cooperation with the work and purpose” of the convention.

Full Article from the Baptist Standard

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Google ‘Voice Search’ hands-on verdict: Awesome

The new voice-activated Google Mobile app for the iPhone is finally here. Whatever the reason for the delay, it was worth the wait. As we wrote last week, the search app knows when you bring the phone to your face to speak into it. It beeps, you talk, and it executes a Google search on what you said. (If you’re using a headset, you have to press a button. You can type in your queries, too, if you want.)

It is freakishly accurate. It’s not perfect, but it’s extremely good.

Full CNet Article

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