retina display. >> why is it getting rave reviews?ll, this thing is half an inch thick at its thickest point. that combined with the retina display makes it really really slim. it's like ipad-type feel but has laptop power. not high end laptop power but laptop power. at 1300 bucks, that's the same price as the macbook pro, which has the ports, a faster processor, which has the screen that's an inch bigger with the retina display also. >> do you use your ipad less because of this. >> is this going to cannibalize? >> it will. >> lance says no. >> you think it will cannibalize the ipad? >> it doesn't have a touch screen. it remindered me of the first ipad. it's just a half pound different in weight and the size is similar. i even held them up next to each other. this is something that's still about work about sort of pure play, word processing, e-mail. the ipad is obviously a lot of content consumption, some work. >> not for the high-end executive user, though. if you need a screen that's bigger than the iphone 6 plus and you need to be

they've not dreamed of and participated in san francisco the hotel and tourism industry and allowed retina to stay in their homes and retire xhovnl and to reinvent themselves like hive not dreamed of that's a wonderful thing or less a friend of mine from 43 allergy he found a home sharing room yet near debois park a wonderful woman opened her home and served him chose and saudi 3 days more and he shopped and used our transportation and ate at our restaurants and spent his money in your economy imagine more people like him and visitors like him visit our wonderful neighbors and neighborhood and residents so i'd like to make sure that. >> your time is up thank you very much. >> thank you. >> hi, i'm bryce bennett from glen park i own my home with my husband as consumers we've been told to shop and eat locally this encourages people to stay at our home we make our place forcible for people to visit we're legally refrmd we're none thirty the rental process is horrible it is way too difficult you guys need to correct that we rent out one spare bedroom in our home that norm would not be represen

other statewide states but finally got here to san francisco what that program was to do to train is retina to become managers, flaresers and contributions and all folks to run the housing authority the tenants were supposed to do that the hope program started in bayview hunters point from is fellow that ran the hate ashbury if a person was on drugs they were gotten off drugs and put into training all i have to do is get the information correctly but what occurred that was 20 tenants that was trained to be manager's 10 was hired and this was before willie brown who become the mayor the san francisco in 1996 and leader about those folks coming in i'm talking about the mayor's office of housing for to purchase their apartments a lot of things was going on a lot of things going on for the people of san francisco i don't know how long people when i look at a building like this it frilgdz me because of the fact all of this area is landfill landfill if there's an earthquake and those buildings start falling nobody will be alive we vote back years ago that no buildings would be built in san franci

some studies done in animals show blue light can cause damage to retina. that damage looks like macular degeneration leading cause of permanent vision loss. but dr. hairs say while there is concern, at this point we just don't know impact it will have on people. >> we really don't know what will happen in five ten fifteen years. so far i would have to say we're not seeing long term he fengts and not doing additional surgery because patients are using pdas or computers all day long. i cannot look into future. >> for now simple changes to prevent eye strain. position your computer monitor at least arm's length away from eyes and slightly lower the screen by looking down your eyelid will protect more of your eye. use artificial tiers for dry eyes and lower brightness on devices and take breaks. >> make sure every ten, twenty minutes you're taking a break. look across the room, let the eyes relax. >> some call that the 0/"20/20" rule every 20 minutes look 20 feet into distance for at least 20 seconds. of course if you have any lasting vision changes you should

way, by touching it. 56-year-old joseÉ pedro gonzaÁlez lost his sight at age 14 due to a detached retinatoday, he is at the prado museum, running his hands along el greco's "nobleman." it's one of six reproduced paintings in the exhibition called "touching the prado." >> ( translated ): suddenly, i saw the ruffs. they go all the way up to his ears. i saw them. and what else did i notice? well, how the painting is done. look, this has a different texture than this. >> stewart: gonzaÁlez represents la once, spain's national association for the blind. it's one of the organizations that helped bring this exhibition to the museum. >> ( translated ): i have never been given the chance to touch a painting in a museum, not even in a smaller version of it. so, for me, this is a unique experience. >> stewart: the tactile copies are the result of a special technique called diduÚ, developed in spain by durero studios. diduÚ was first used in a 2010 photo exhibition by a journalist who had lost most of his sight due to illness. the process uses special inks and ultraviolet light to raise parts of the

so that he creates a chemical project in which the retina is attracted by the painting.wanted his painting to be hanged low on off-white walls with very little light. you are just pulled into the art. and it becomes an experience. charlie: plate 16 is 1969, the year before his suicide. annie: exactly. it is not that it becomes darker because the last painting we think might be red. it just becomes more interesting in the interaction he creates with the viewer. charlie: the book is called "mark rothko: toward the light in the chapel." annie cohen-solal, thank you. a pleasure. great to see you. thank you for joining us. see you next time. ♪ >> live from pier 3 in san francisco, welcome to "bloomberg west," where we focus on technology, innovation, and the future of business. kentucky senator rand paul has officially announced his campaign for president. he spoke in louisville, where he said he is running to defeat the washington machine. rand paul: too often when republicans have won, we've

so that he creates a chemical project in which the retina is attracted by the painting.wanted his painting to be hanged low on off-white walls with very little light. you are just pulled into the art. and it becomes an experience. charlie: plate 16 is 1969, the year before his suicide. annie: exactly. it is not that it becomes darker because the last painting we think might be red. it just becomes more interesting in the interaction he creates with the viewer. charlie: the book is called "mark rothko: towards the light in the chapel." annie cohen-solal, thank you. a pleasure. great to see you. thank you for joining us. see you next time. ♪ ♪ >> bloomberg politics special randall howard and rand paul. grexit i am putting myself forward. >> will be rand brand expand, or is the rand brand bland? tonight, the rand brand plan. >> that was pretty clever. that was all right. announcer: and i have got more. can rand paul do it all? it is total recall. he came in like a wrecking ball.

they implanted a device on his retina. a tiny video camera on a pair of glasses captures a scene and transmits it to the implant, which sends it to his optic nerve. here is what happened when doctors turned on the implant. >> can you see? >> yes. you're right there. >> oh. >> before his surgery, the patient said he only saw shades of gray. doctors are calling the implant system a medical breakthrough. >>> now, your nbc 10 first alert weather with chief meteorologist glenn "hurricane" schwartz. >> well, we ended the month of march with snow in parts of the area and now as we go into april, it is going to get significantly warmer. we also have some breezy weather. it is breezy today. it is going to be breezy tomorrow breezy on saturday. and a big warmup is on the way. but we're also tracking rain and maybe even some thunderstorms before the weekend. look how blue that sky is right now. it is crystal clear. it is 45 degrees. but 10-mile-an-hour wind dusting to 22 miles an hour at the moment. 2 degrees below normal in january.

the retina is fried. continue. >> you are fried. a mini usb cable that runs from the head set to the phone, which is the brains to the operation. neil: a usb going to the phone? this is stupid. >> it is science fiction right now. one day maybe it's interesting. it's in the corner of gaming. neil: you are here before saying this is the future, maybe they get the glasses down to size. i don't know why they always show elephants in the ad. but what do you make, you like where this is going, this is the future. >> i'm guy that loves tech. it's creative to think about a device that let's you go games or to worlds or to travel virtually in your head right? it's kind of like this. >> it's your imagination. you don't need goggles nar. >> fair enough. this is a clear imagination, that's exciting. neil: unless your eyes are being fried. >> and it overheats and drains your whole battery. neil: it could ruin your day. >> it could definitely ruin your day. spirit of it is interesting. i think they'll get it a little better. but now it's not an i

natural sun light in school with nearsightedness, the light goes longer and it doesn't focus the retinacts more blurry and doctors think they can help with that. >> scientists are turning to spider venom for a new class of painkillers. some of the most poisonous creatures on earth spider venom can block the molecular membrane. a tarantula could potentially become the pain-killing drug they say. from the nasdaq i'm jane king. here's to your health. >> i can't even look at those pictures. >> you don'ts want the venom even if it helps me. maybe if the spite zereowe far removed from it. in another country. an art exhibit is brightening up san francisco and abc 7 news is at the civic center plaza as the carnival was officially unveiled and features 19 animal s ands and these are the work of taiwanese artists hun yee. some placed coins on the money frog. the animal will carry a symbol in taiwanese culture. >> art is an international language that more and more people appreciate because it brings us together. >> he made a special sculpture and it features the buffalo with an eagle of peace on

his paintings into something almost fluorescent so that he creates a chemical project in which the retinated by the painting. he wanted his painting tothang low. and you are pulled into the art and it becomes an experiment. >> rose: this is 1969. this is the year before his suicide. >> exactly. so it's not that it becomes darker because the last painting we think might be red. it doesn't become darker it just becomes more interesting in the interaction he creates with the viewer. >> rose: the book is called remark rothko. toward the light. thank you for joining us. see you next time. visit us on pbs.org and charlierose.com. captioning sponsored by rose communications captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org announcer: a kqed television production. man: it's like holy mother of comfort food. woman: throw it down. it's noodle crack. patel: you have to be ready for the heart attack on a platter. crowell: okay, i'm the bacon guy. man: oh, i just did a jig every time i dipped into it. man #2: it just completely blew my mind. woman: it felt like i had a mouthful of raw vegetables

his paintings into something almost fluorescent so that he creates a chemical project in which the retinated by the painting. he wanted his painting tothang low. and you are pulled into the art and it becomes an experiment. >> rose: this is 1969. this is the year before his suicide. >> exactly. so it's not that it becomes darker because the last painting we think might be red. it doesn't become darker it just becomes more interesting in the interaction he creates with the viewer. >> rose: the book is called remark rothko. toward the light. thank you for joining us. see you next time. visit us on pbs.org and charlierose.com. captioning sponsored by rose communications captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >>> this is "nightly business reportrt," with tyler mathisen and sue herera. >> state of denial. stocks clinl, ignoring last week's dismal data. why is bad news for the economy so often good news on wall dollar downer why the stronger dollar spells pain for some smaller companies with made in . and strained relationship the growing backlash big business faces from some o

once you get that retina display, not just apple, lots of companies have it, lenovo has laptops thatn as does acer and several windows providers it's an it interesting age and era in computing with challenges. the performance of this is not going to be on par with your mac book pro. if you're doing a lot of video editing particularly in 4k and hd this isn't the machine you're going to want to carry. doing lightweight productivity even spread sheets at the level that most do them you could get it done with this and might choose to carry it. >> we have talked about the tablets challenges, right, and the ipad's challenges even tim cook called it a hiccup. improving on this maybe they are allowing the category of a tablet to continue to sustain damage. we'll have to see. >> this costs more. >> that is true. >> that is true. asp all important. >> market has been steady here, dow down about 23 points. s&p is hovering around 2080, a busy afternoon. over to scott wapner headquarters and the half. about ♪ ♪ douglas lane and associates, dan gre house and randy frederick managing director of tr

it's a high resolution retina display.out telling time which it does very well, and some notifications it's about keeping in touch with friends. and one of the things you can do which is kind of cool is you can make a circle of your best friend and you've got these digital touches you can do. i can draw pictures with my finger -- bill: oh, that's cool. i'm digging it. >> that will reappear on her apple watch. i can also if i put two fingers on it -- whoops not that way. i'm trying to, you know it's hard because i'm in a weird spot right now but i want to show you -- there it goes i'm sending a heartbeat. now, why you would want to send a heartbeat? i don't know, but it's fun. bill: well, i remember the time i played on a song on my tv through my itunes with my concern. so this may be the next thing here. lance, bring that back. >> anytime. bill: you a buyer? >> i like it. martha: here's martha breaking news. martha: all right. want to get you back there because robert durst has just pled not guilty to weapons and drug can

so facial features eye retinas when completing transactions.t will triple to $142 billion by 2019 to cane an analyst the forest ter. when you make payments with your phone you're relying on your passwords and user name. there are questions about the security of that. that's why you see tech companies moving into bio biometrics. alibaba's jack ma took it up a notch touting a new service that he called smile to pay, and that would basically allow users to scan their faces with their smartphones. of course, no surprise some analysts are skeptical. >> it's taken some time just to get them comfortable with the idea of having their fingerprint scanned, so i'm not certain that consumers are going to want to have their eyeballs scanned by their phones just yet. >> much of this biometric technology is still very much in its infancy but some analysts think this is the future of payments where passwords and pins become a thing of the past. tyler, back to you. >> josh thank you very much. coming up on "power lunch," a castle that is also a miniature beef p