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Email in your eye? Next-generation video screen glasses could lay messages or GPS over your field of vision

Gavin Allen Daily Mail 01/13/2012

As advances in computer technology make gadgets ever smaller and more portable the idea of carrying a screen of any kind could soon be outdated. Consumer products with screens have dropped in size from computer to laptop to tablet via phone. But one company specialising in cutting edge visual technology waIsraeli company Lumus has shown off the PD-18-2, which may look like a cumbersome pair of shades but allow the user to see high-quality images while they walk.nts to beam information directly into your field of vision.

Universal Flu Vaccine Could Be Available by 2013 Jason Koebler US News 01/13/2012	Tissue holders pulled from stores in NY, elsewhere The Wall Street Journal 01/12/2012
Annual flu shots might soon become a thing of the past, and threats such as avian and swine flu might disappear with them as a vaccine touted as the "holy grail" of flu treatment could be ready for human trials next year.	Metal tissue holders contaminated with low levels of radioactive material may have been distributed to Bed, Bath & Beyond stores in more than 20 states including New York, federal regulators said Thursday.
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Russian spacecraft to crash to Earth on Sunday Nick Collins Telegraph 01/12/2012	Record snow in Anchorage as Alaskan communities run out of shovels following 27ft snowfall... and there's more to come! Mark Duell Daily Mail 01/12/2012
The remainder of the crippled Phobos-Grunt spacecraft is set to crash to Earth on Sunday following its botched mission to Mars, space experts have said.	Weary Alaskans woke up to another heavy snowfall as Anchorage experiences its snowiest period since records began, causing more headaches in coastal areas already struggling to dig out.
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Bloomberg forced to reverse decision to close New York liquor stores after bitter criticism by small businesses Hugo Gye and Nina Golgowski Daily Mail 01/11/2012	Oxycodone Prescriptions Rose Sharply in New York The New York Times 01/11/2012
Mayor Michael Bloomberg's warning of last call on drinks was just a test his office said Wednesday, just hours after news of his health-motivated plan broke.	In a stark depiction of the rapid spread of prescription drug use and abuse in New York State, a new report shows that prescriptions for oxycodone, a widely prescribed narcotic painkiller, rose by 82 percent from 2007 to 2010.
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Owning car, TV linked to heart attacks: study Breitbart.com 01/10/2012	New York anti-obesity ads pair soda, leg amputations Jonathan Allen Chicago Tribune 01/09/2012
Car owners with a television are 27 percent more likely to suffer heart attacks than people who have neither, according to a global study on physical exercise and heart disease published Wednesday.	A diabetic man with a penchant for sugary drinks who lost his legs to amputation is the latest posterboy in the city health department's hard-hitting anti-obesity campaign.
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