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Google Pride Easter Egg

Google has been a proud supporter of equal rights for LGBT community and same sex marriage for years. Extending the support, Google engineers have created another Easter Egg at Google Docs where a little pride trick converts entire spreadsheet into LGBT flag.

Google Spreadsheet PRIDE Easter Egg

To replicate this Google Pride Easter Egg, follow one of these methods –

Open Google Docs Spreadsheet. Type letters P-R-I-D-E in each of the column at top row. Now click on any cell.

Go to the any spreadsheet and appends its URL at address bar with &pride=true.

This Easter Egg was shared by Tiffany Henry who accidentally discovered it yesterday while working on a vacation spreadsheet.

Last week, Google had similar Easter egg where the search box surrounded itself with rainbow colors for LGBT related searches like “gay pride”, “pride parade”, “homosexuality” and many more.

Gay pride Google Search

Google is known to provide non-discriminatory benefits and equal rights to its transgender employees, often referred as Gayglers. They have also published few videos in the past to support the community.

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The Telecopic Contact Lens That Lets You See Like The Terminator

Have you ever wished you had vision that could zoom in and out, like the Terminator? Well maybe soon you can.

A team is working on a new telescopic contact lens that is just over a millimeter thick. The lens is surrounded by a ring of movable components that magnify view by 2.8 times. As of yet, it is not able to compute the facial structure of what is being looked at but liquid crystal shutters allow the wearer to switch between normal and magnified vision.

Contact Lens

The contact lens was developed at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland and at the University of California, San Diego by Eric Tremblay and his colleagues. The research and developement for the project has been funded by DARPA.

So far the team has integrated the LCD shutter mechanism into a pair of modified Samsung 3D TV glasses. The lens has been tested on an optomechanical model of the human eye and it is hoped that it won’t be too long before the LCD technology can be embedded directly into the lens itself, doing away with the 3D glasses.

According to New Scientist, the researches have said “Although the magnified images were clearly visible in our tests, acuity fell short of the design specification.” The team believe that if they can improve the refractive optics, then any diffraction related problems will be solved.

So while we await this interesting piece of techology, we will just have to make do with normal specs and cheesy Arnie impressions!

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Source: http://mashable.com/2013/07/02/telescopic-contact-lens/

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