Themo Saurus

Autofocusing reading glasses of the future.
As you age, you gradually lose the ability to refocus your eyes — a phenomenon as old as humanity itself — leading to a reliance on bifocals, contacts and procedures like LASIK surgery. Electrical engineer Nitish Padmanaban offers a glimpse of cutting-edge tech that’s truly a sight for sore eyes:…[Read more]

Even in lockdown, mothers bear the brunt of child care.
FOR ALL the talk about responsible fathering and child care, it is still mothers who spend much more of their time looking after children—even during the pandemic, even when both parents are furloughed and even when both are working from home. That is one of several findings from a study p…[Read more]

My advice monster was delighted !
She started telling me what was going on, and I started to pretend to listen because, quite frankly, my advice monster already knew exactly what I wanted to tell her.
Finally, she finished so I was able to share my brilliant advice — — and make no mistake it was brilliant. But my advice went nowhere; my adv…[Read more]

Why you should treat the tech you use at work like a colleague ?
Imagine your company hires a new employee and then everyone just ignores them, day in and day out, while they sit alone at their desk getting paid to do nothing. This situation actually happens all the time — when companies invest millions of dollars in new tech tools only to have…[Read more]