Tech photos for 12-Aug-2008

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Another slew of tech-based images and others from the news. As usual, click on the image to visit the link

Waterspout, seen over Montreal on 23 July of this year.

Pressure-sensing contact lens.

Mount Spur, Alaska, that is being investigated as a source of geothermal energy.

Wasp knife, which features a container of compressed gas that, when released in the body, creates a bolus surrounded by frozen tissue.

Tinted extra-wide contacts to give that "amime" look of extra-large pupils.

Natalie Du Toit of South Africa is the first female amputee to make it to the Olympics. There is a YouTube video of her being interviewed at the image source.

Gothic art meets radiology.

Just because.

Artificial eyeball with curved image sensor, made possible using stretchable electronics.

Details of how the artificial eye was constructed