The Week in Vision

Stephen Howell joins CRS today as our new Applications & Support Engineer. He'll be responsible for the on-going development of our Toolboxes for MATLAB and will assist the Sales team by providing custom MATLAB scripts to help new customers get started with their research project. The Support role will see Stephen take over the day-to-day running of our web-based Support Portal: you can expect to see the number of entries in the Knowledge Base growing on a regular basis as Stephen begins the daunting task of documenting the most common questions and answers.

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I'm in Sarasota for the Vision Science Society Meeting. One of the highlights of the meeting for me is always the Demo Night. Held in the G.Wiz Science Museum, VSS participants present demonstrations of visual phenomena. Some are astounding, some mystifying and all are invariably fascinating. This year there were twenty or so demonstrations. Besides the demonstrations there is always the opportunity to watch a group of grown vision scientists 'investigating' the museum exhibits.

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Is this the only computer you will ever need?


Maybe! This amazing little Internet Tablet is my must have gadget of the moment. It's designed for mobile access to the web. Incorporating an 800x480 touch sensitive screen with character recognition, 802.11b/g Wi-Fi (or WLAN as it's becoming known) and Bluetooth wireless, and the ability to replay just about any media format including MPEG-4, it's the ultimate in pocketable connectivity. Also, it's based on Linux and is a fully-fledged computer that can run a whole host applications.

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