Massachusetts Institute of Technology doctoral candidate Saul Griffith, with the help of his colleague Neil Houghton won the Business School Social Enterprise Business Plan Contest for the concept in 2001, has deleveloped an efficient lens manufacturing process dubbed the "desktop printer" for low-cost eyeglass lenses. He has just been presented the prestigious $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for his inventiveness. Read the full article here.

The company he has started is called Low Cost Eye Glasses

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We actually did it. We put a deposit on a new home. I just hope that we can afford it. Feels good, yet scarey at the same time. The biggest purchase or our lives, so far.

UPDATE: we had to back out of buying the house. The plot that we got had a large telephone/power line pole in the backyard. It's a terrible eye-sore. Hopefully we can get back on the priority list.

UPDATE: the prices have exceeded our budget, we're no longer pursing this development.

I finally got my photos back online.
Take a look

The Alaskan Cruise has been booked for May/June. We'll also be touring Seattle and Vancouver for a few days as well.