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The Phone at Home Gets Smart

By David Pogue

“Nobody” has home phone lines anymore. “Nobody” reads printed newspapers. “Nobody” wants books on paper. Sorry, hotshots, but several hundred million nobodies still have home phone lines, subscribe to printed papers and read printed and bound books. So it’s reassuring to find out that a few engineers are still advancing the state of the art in a technology that the 28-yearolds have given up for dead: the home phone. In the last couple of months, two electronics giants — Panasonic and Verizon — have tried to drag the thing into 2009. The Panasonic’s latest cordless phone, for example, contains a digital answering machine, and you can park extension handsets around the house; they all communicate wirelessly. The phone also offers Do Not Disturb, which lets you establish certain hours during which the phone doesn’t ring. The Verizon home phone can, for the first time, also send text and picture messages to cellphones. Right from the kitchen counter, you can text anyone in real time. Disponível em: Acesso em: 08 ago. 2009. [Adaptado]

The Phone at Home Gets Smart

By David Pogue

“Nobody” has home phone lines anymore. “Nobody” reads printed newspapers. “Nobody” wants books on paper. Sorry, hotshots, but several hundred million nobodies still have home phone lines, subscribe to printed papers and read printed and bound books. So it’s reassuring to find out that a few engineers are still advancing the state of the art in a technology that the 28-yearolds have given up for dead: the home phone. In the last couple of months, two electronics giants — Panasonic and Verizon — have tried to drag the thing into 2009. The Panasonic’s latest cordless phone, for example, contains a digital answering machine, and you can park extension handsets around the house; they all communicate wirelessly. The phone also offers Do Not Disturb, which lets you establish certain hours during which the phone doesn’t ring. The Verizon home phone can, for the first time, also send text and picture messages to cellphones. Right from the kitchen counter, you can text anyone in real time. Disponível em: Acesso em: 08 ago. 2009. [Adaptado]

The Phone at Home Gets Smart

By David Pogue

“Nobody” has home phone lines anymore. “Nobody” reads printed newspapers. “Nobody” wants books on paper. Sorry, hotshots, but several hundred million nobodies still have home phone lines, subscribe to printed papers and read printed and bound books. So it’s reassuring to find out that a few engineers are still advancing the state of the art in a technology that the 28-yearolds have given up for dead: the home phone. In the last couple of months, two electronics giants — Panasonic and Verizon — have tried to drag the thing into 2009. The Panasonic’s latest cordless phone, for example, contains a digital answering machine, and you can park extension handsets around the house; they all communicate wirelessly. The phone also offers Do Not Disturb, which lets you establish certain hours during which the phone doesn’t ring. The Verizon home phone can, for the first time, also send text and picture messages to cellphones. Right from the kitchen counter, you can text anyone in real time. Disponível em: Acesso em: 08 ago. 2009. [Adaptado]

The Claim: Eye Exercises Can Enhance Your Vision.

By Anahad O’Connor  

For almost a century, eye exercises have been promoted as a way to strengthen vision and ease nearsightedness and astigmatism, much like exercise for the body trims fat and improves health.

Some of the most popular techniques include eye-hand coordination drills, eye movement routines and focusing on blinking lights. The techniques are widely promoted online and advocated by various companies, some even claiming that they can reduce the need for glasses and ease learning disabilities. But several studies have concluded that many of these do-it-yourself techniques are baseless.

One of the latest studies, published in 2009, found little evidence in support of vision exercises that supposedly slow or reduce myopia, ease dyslexia and correct conditions caused by physiological problems, like blurred vision. A similar conclusion had been reached in a 2005 report that reviewed 43 previous studies, finding “no clear scientific evidence” for most of the methods reviewed.

Disponível em:http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/26/health/26real.html [Adaptado] Foto: http://opticanet.com.br/secao/pages/LerMateria.aspx?matId=3121 Acesso em: 26 ago. 2009. [Adaptado] 

The Claim: Eye Exercises Can Enhance Your Vision.

By Anahad O’Connor  

For almost a century, eye exercises have been promoted as a way to strengthen vision and ease nearsightedness and astigmatism, much like exercise for the body trims fat and improves health.

Some of the most popular techniques include eye-hand coordination drills, eye movement routines and focusing on blinking lights. The techniques are widely promoted online and advocated by various companies, some even claiming that they can reduce the need for glasses and ease learning disabilities. But several studies have concluded that many of these do-it-yourself techniques are baseless.

One of the latest studies, published in 2009, found little evidence in support of vision exercises that supposedly slow or reduce myopia, ease dyslexia and correct conditions caused by physiological problems, like blurred vision. A similar conclusion had been reached in a 2005 report that reviewed 43 previous studies, finding “no clear scientific evidence” for most of the methods reviewed.

Disponível em:http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/26/health/26real.html [Adaptado] Foto: http://opticanet.com.br/secao/pages/LerMateria.aspx?matId=3121 Acesso em: 26 ago. 2009. [Adaptado] 

The Claim: Eye Exercises Can Enhance Your Vision.

By Anahad O’Connor  

For almost a century, eye exercises have been promoted as a way to strengthen vision and ease nearsightedness and astigmatism, much like exercise for the body trims fat and improves health.

Some of the most popular techniques include eye-hand coordination drills, eye movement routines and focusing on blinking lights. The techniques are widely promoted online and advocated by various companies, some even claiming that they can reduce the need for glasses and ease learning disabilities. But several studies have concluded that many of these do-it-yourself techniques are baseless.

One of the latest studies, published in 2009, found little evidence in support of vision exercises that supposedly slow or reduce myopia, ease dyslexia and correct conditions caused by physiological problems, like blurred vision. A similar conclusion had been reached in a 2005 report that reviewed 43 previous studies, finding “no clear scientific evidence” for most of the methods reviewed.

Disponível em:http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/26/health/26real.html [Adaptado] Foto: http://opticanet.com.br/secao/pages/LerMateria.aspx?matId=3121 Acesso em: 26 ago. 2009. [Adaptado]