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Innovative Superfocus glasses were originally designed to deliver sharp vision to some 65 million Americans with aging eyes. Now they're even helping astronauts see better on long space flights

What do you give the entrepreneur who has everything? To find out, we asked several business owners to describe their most cherished gifts. For my birthday a few years ago, my now-ex-husband gave me bound copies of every Vogue magazine published in the 1960s.

The award-winning, death-cheating director of "Grizzly Man" and "Fitzcarraldo" gets up close and personal for his latest documentary.

Each candidate has his or her own strategy; some work, others fail. Here's what you can learn from the social media accounts of the 2012 presidential candidates.

A Q&A with the director of Microsoft's Envisioning Lab, where they're working 10 years ahead, growing plants on the walls, and thinking about how your data will do your bidding in the future. The most unbelievable part of Microsoft's eye-catching Productivity Future Vision video , released earlier this week, isn't the see-through refrigerator, the software app that discovers a product design breakthrough on its own, or the plants growing on the wall of the ethereally white office. (That last one, actually, is a real office on the Microsoft campus.) No, the most unbelievable part is how clean every surface is--in the car, in the office, and even in a kitchen where a bake sale project is underway.

These new tech tools can improve the flow of your business operations, help you attract new customers or develop new loyalty programs, and directly impact your monthly sales. You might notice something different about the sales receipt at Burgerville, a chain of 39 burger shops in the Portland area. Using a technology developed by SmartReceipt (www.receipt.com), the chain shows customized nutrition information about your specific order, news and trivia, and marketing information.

In Silicon Valley, some dare to ask: Why hire a PhD, when a self-taught kid is just as good? Adam Passey, 28 Medford, Oregon Former VP of information and technology at a marketing agency HIRED BY IGN "I had one job for 10 years, and a lot of the systems I worked on were proprietary, so I couldn't show them as examples of my work

Bill Nguyen launches startups with haste, never researches the competition, and makes the same mistakes "again and again." So why do people keep giving him so much money? td p {padding:10px !important;font-size:12px !important;font-family:arial !important;line-height:1.2em !important;} "I make the same mistakes with every single startup," says Nguyen, pictured here at Color headquarters

The New York City company describes itself as "people-powered antivirus for bills." Personal finance security start-up BillGuard, which describes itself as "people-powered antivirus for bills," has closed $10 million in second-round financing. The New York City-based company scans credit card bills for unauthorized, wrong, or deceptive charges using a combination of algorithms, complaints posted on the Internet about scams, and feedback from users (the last bit being the "people-powered" part of the equation).

GPS is utterly useless for finding your wife or kids (or even locating yourself) at the mall. What we need is an indoor equivalent of GPS

The Republic of Tea invests heavily in its employees well being. CEO Ron Rubin says it's not just about lowering health care costs, but about the company living its own values

A defense contractor decided a man could not do his desk job because he was morbidly obese. The Equal Opportunity Employment Commission says this is against the law. At 600 plus pounds, Ronald Kratz II wasn't having any problem performing his desk job at a defense contractor and had been receiving good evaluations at work.

With a firm hand (a very firm hand) and an eye for detail, he built a regional sporting-goods giant.

While visiting Paris in 1851, a Swiss ribbon salesman named Carl Franz Bally picked up a dozen pairs of ready-made shoes as a gift for his wife. When only two actually fit, she insisted he return to France for more. Instead, Bally began the process of converting his Sch

The founder of the Slow Money movement makes the case for the kinds of return on investment you get when you put money into your local community. Is there such a thing as money that is too fast, companies that are too big, investments that are too abstract and securities that are too complex