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• Cure for blindness?

  Retinal implants usher in a new era for eye surgery and offer new hope for previously incurable blindness, reports E&T.

  
  

• The eyeborg man

  E&T visits three Toronto men who have created a functioning camera eye - an invention with far-reaching applications.

  
  

• Coming through a screen near you

  2009 looks set to be the year for 3D, as industry leaders at the big consumer tech trade shows showcased their 3D content capabilities using TVs already available to consumers - E&T investigates.

  
  

• Painting with light

  Digital photography has come a long way in a short time. But, as E&T finds out, there's plenty more to come.

  
  

• Bionic batteries

  Lithium still rules in battery design but nano and biotechnologies could massively improve on what we have. E&T examines.

  
  

• The next landmark in vision

  High-powered computers and laser and camera systems are making true 3D vision a reality explains E&T.

  
  

• It's an inside job

  Former disgruntled employees are the biggest risk to network security in these troubled times, explains E&T.

  
  

• Nature's little helpers

  An extra 600 billion barrels of oil could be extracted from existing oilfields by using microbes according to oil giant BP. E&T investigates.

  
  

• War on waste

  There has been much talk about energy saving in the home, but what is fact and what is fiction? E&T discovers that armed with the correct information consumers can make informed decisions that will counter rising energy bills.

  
  

• My Way - IT at the Friedrich Miescher Institute

  Biomedical research specialist the Friedrich Miescher Institute needed a strategy to manage the data deluge that was increasing by at least 100Gb a year. Part of the answer was to throw the problem back at the users who are generating it all, head of informatics Dean Flanders tells E&T.

  
  

• Viewpoint - Fear of feedback?

  Why are suppliers of software development usually so reluctant to bring in others to provide a second opinion?

  
  

• The body in question

  The UK's universities are leading the way in many aspects of ICT R&D. In the third of a three-part series, E&T surveys innovative projects at University of Oxford's Computing Laboratory.

  
  

• At first sight

  The industrial robot sector is well established within automotive manufacturing but, as E&T discovers, adding vision technology to robot cells can increase productivity and open new processes to automation.

  
  

• The colour of money

  E&T discovers that going green should mean saving money, not spending more.

  
  

• Mind the gaps

  Making better use of gaps in the radio spectrum could enable a spate of new applications. But it's not going to be as easy as some people think, according to E&T.

  
  

• Perfecting the ecosystem

  Ecosystems of software, services and accessories can help make mobile devices more attractive prospects, according to E&T.

  
  

• Audacity will lift the gloom

  Responding to tough times requires more than retrenchment. As a manager, you need to renew the purpose and sustainability of your company. Psychologist and entrepreneur Steve Carter explores 'audacious leadership'.

  
  

• Know who your friends are

  One of the best ways to reach new markets, plug skills gaps and create commercial opportunities is by creating alliances. But be careful how you do it say the authors of a new book, reviewed here by E&T.

  
  

• Blind visionary

  E&T recounts the fascinating life story of Louis Braille who, in 1824, when he was just 15, devised the six-dot reading technology that is the standard method of reading and writing for blind people to this very day.