I was busy last week, so this issue of the Information Overload is very short and a bit late.

• The laser-powered bionic eye that gives 576-pixel grayscale vision to the blind
  Bionic eyes could change many people’s lives.
• How to avoid getting ‘hit by air’ in Italy
  I have lived in Italy. I still live with an Italian. I also have an Italian coworker. And I’m quite the hypochondriac myself, so obviously this article resonates well with me.
• A Small World After All?
  Maybe the Internet isn’t as globalizing as people believe it to be?