By now your body and your mind should be adjusted to losing an hour from Daylight Saving Time. Yet sitting at your desk, reading a report, yours eyes begin to droop. Your blinking slows. Slowly but surely, the battle ensues. It’s you against your eyes. Who will win? Then it hits you: are your eyes …
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Children today have more digital tools at their disposal than ever before—tablets, smartphones, e-readers, hand-held videogames and computers. What ever happened to playing outside? Somehow Angry Birds usurped hide-and-seek because, according to a study by the Kaiser Family Foundation, children and teenagers (ages 8-18) are spending more than 7.5 hours a day consuming electronic media. …
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A recent study conducted at the University of Sydney has found that kids who spend more than an hour and half of screentime daily show signs of narrowed arteries in their eyes. These signs in adults can correlate with risk of high-blood pressure and heart disease.
Tonight marks the kick-off of the most highly anticipated tournament in all of basketball—NCAA March Madness, a tournament of 68 college teams battling for the national title. That’s a lot of teams and a lot of games. In fact, this is the first time in NCAA March Madness history that every game will be nationally …
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Nintendo’s next handheld device, the Nintendo 3DS, is set to launch on March 27th. They have a lineup of 18 games coming out in 2011, 13 of which will be released on the 3DS launch date. Along with the upcoming release comes a new recommendation from Nintendo that, to avoid motion sickness, users should take …
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I’ve been playing a good amount of online multi-player video games over the past year – specifically Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Black Ops – two of the most popular games in the past couple years. If you’ve played the games, you know that it’s not uncommon to play for three to four …
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Cleveland Rocks! Check out this clip from VSP Provider Peter Mogyordy, OD as he discusses 3-D effects on vision, especially with new technologies like the Nintendo 3DS handheld gaming system.
VSP Provider Dr. Lior Koppel sits down with News 12 New Jersey’s Dr. Derrick Desilva to discuss computer vision syndrome and offers tips on how to relieve strain in your eyes after prolonged use of a digital device. Dr. Lior Koppel is a private practice eye doctor at Eye Krafters Optical in Edison, New Jersey.
Dr. Nate Bonilla-Warford, a regular contributor to the VSPBlog, was recently featured in a post on Mashable – a key source on the web for social media and technology news .… Here’s an excerpt … In attempting to sum up the world in 2010, one word comes to mind: connected. Everywhere we go we carry …
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On November 9, Activision Blizzard Inc. set the new record for the video game industry by raking in $360 million opening day of their highly anticipated video game ” Call of Duty: Black Ops.” Americans on average spend almost 8 hours a day on a digital device, so it would be safe to say with the release of …
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