Posted Jun 11, 2013 by Ingrid Lunden (@ingridlunden) After months of speculation, the fate of Waze, the social-mapping-location-data startup, is finally decided: Google is buying the company, giving the search giant a social boost to its already-strong mapping and mobile businesses.
People don't blink when they're asleep. In a 24 hour day, most(?) people sleep for eight hours, so 15,360 would be a lot closer for an entire day. Also, anyone who uses a computer blinks a lot less than normal.
Dry eye. When looking at something in the distance, your eyes automatically blink a certain number of times. However, blink rate slows down when you look at things that are closer to your face, Shugarman said, which means tears evaporate more quickly than when you were blinking more frequently.here's no research that shows constant technology use causes any permanent vision damage. But staring at bright screens for hours on end can lead to smaller-scale problems, said Dr. Richard Shugarman, a volunteer professor of ophthalmology at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute at the University of Miami.