Setiap penduduk dewasa Swiss diberi tunjangan Rp 34 juta/bulan

Kompas.com - Pemerintah Swiss bersiap menggelar referendum terkait usulan memberlakukan sistem penghasilan minimum universal. Jika beleid itu berlaku, maka negara wajib memberikan gaji bulanan kepada seluruh warga, tua-muda, tanpa kecuali, tak peduli mereka bekerja atau sedang menganggur.

Contact Lenses Developed By Swiss Scientists Allows Wearer 2.8x Magnified Vision In Wink Of An Eye

Techtimes.com - Telescopic contact lenses developed in Switzerland allow users to zoom in on distant objects, as if they were looking through binoculars. The lenses can magnify a wearer's vision up to 2.8 times.

The new contact lens can be switched between normal and magnified states, as images are carried along a pair of independent pathways. A pair of glasses worn with the lenses recognizes winks, while ignoring quick involuntary blinks, in order to change modes. Users wink their right eye to view the world in magnified mode, and a left eye blink is used to return to normal vision.

Around 285 million people worldwide suffer from some form of visual impairment. The leading cause of blindness is age-related macular degeneration (AMD).

"It's very important and hard to strike a balance between function and the social costs of wearing any kind of bulky visual device. There is a strong need for something more integrated, and a contact lens is an attractive direction. At this point this is still research, but we are hopeful it will eventually become a real option for people with AMD,"  Eric Tremblay at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland said.

This is the latest version of the contact lens system, first developed in 2013, as part of research funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Since the initial version, researchers have been working on updating the lens, making them easier to wear for longer periods of time. The latest version is larger than traditional contacts and rigid. Oxygen needs to pass through the lens and onto the eye. This is accomplished through tiny pores built into the contacts.

Reflective surfaces in the lens function like a telescope along one path of light, while a small aperture allows for light to pass along a different route, little altered by the system.

"There are glasses already on the market for people with AMD that have mounted telescopes, but they tend to look bulky and interfere with social interaction. They also do not track eye movement, so you have to position your eyes and tilt your head to use them," the researchers stated.

Further research is aimed at delivering images of higher quality, as well as a less intrusive lens. Other optical devices could also benefit from the technology, say researchers.

Hobi Selfie Bugil di Kantor Parlemen, Wanita Ini Diskors

Detik.com - Seorang pegawai wanita di parlemen negara Swiss bikin kehebohan. Dia nekat berpose selfie sambil bugil di dalam bangunan parlemen, kemudian mempostingnya di Twitter. Akibatnya, sang pegawai pun kena skorsing.

Sang wanita yang tak disebut namanya ini mendadak populer di Twitter dan langsung meraup 11 ribu follower karena pamer foto bugil itu. Dan awalnya, tak ada yang mempermasalahkan perbuatannya sampai seseorang menyadari bahwa foto bugil dijepret di dalam gedung parlemen Federal Palace di Berne, Swiss, yang bersejarah.

Langsung saja perempuan ini diskors dari posisinya sebagai pegawai parlemen untuk waktu yang belum ditentukan. Ia dinilai melakukan perbuatan tidak pantas yang bisa merugikan citra dewan perwakilan rakyat.

Akan tetapi ketika ditanyai, sang wanita ngotot tidak bersalah. Dia merasa bebas saja selfie bugil sebagai bagian dari kehidupan pribadinya. Malah ia mengaku suka selfie dalam keadaan telanjang saat sedang bekerja di kantor.

Dikutip detikINET dari Mirror, Kamis (7/8/2014), saat ini parlemen sedang menginvestigasi apakah kelakuan salah satu karyawannya itu adalah pelanggaran serius. Jika demikian, bisa jadi akan ada sanksi yang lebih berat.

"Parlemen akan memutuskan, berdasarkan apa yang terjadi, apakah kasus ini menjadi pelanggaran kepercayaan antara kantor dan tenaga kerja," kata juru bicara pemerintah, Anand Jagtap.

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Extra Small Condoms for 12 Year-old Boys Go On Sale in Switzerland

Called the Hotshot, the condom has been produced after government research showed 12 to14-year-olds did not use sufficient protection when having sex.

The study, conducted on behalf of the Federal Commission for Children and Youth, interviewed 1,480 people aged 10 to 20.

It showed more 12 to 14-year-olds were having sex, in comparison with the 1990s.

The Hotshot condoms, which cost 7fr60 (£4.70) for a packet of six, have been created by Lamprecht AG, a leading condom manufacturer in Switzerland.

The company has said the UK would be "top priority" if they expanded abroad, considering that it has the highest teenage pregnancy rate in Europe.

Nysse Norballe, a spokesman for the company, said: "At the moment we are only producing the Hotshot in Switzerland. But the UK is certainly a very attractive market since there is a very high rate of underage conception. The UK would definitely be top priority if we marketed abroad."

A standard condom has a diameter of 2ins (5.2cm) in comparison with the Hotshot's diameter of 1.7ins (4.5cm). Both are the same length – 7.4ins (19cm).

According to a German study of 12,970 13 to 20-year-olds, a quarter said a standard condom was too large.

Family planning groups and the Swiss Aids Federation campaigned to have the Hotshot produced after a number of studies, including the government study researched at the Centre for Development and Personality Psychology at Basel University.

Nancy Bodmer, who headed the research, said: "The result that shocked us concerned young boys who display apparently risky behaviour. They have more of a tendency not to protect themselves. They do not have a very developed sexual knowledge. They do not understand the consequences of what they are doing and leave the young girls to take care of the consequences.

"The results of this study suggest that early prevention makes sense."

The age of consent in Switzerland is 16, although if the age difference is not more than three years there will be no punishment. Other concessions exist if the older person is not more than 20 or believed the younger person to be at least 16.

The Swiss initiative comes as the UK government announces an overhaul of its teenage pregnancy strategy after new figures showed conception rate among 18s were not falling fast enough.

The UK has the highest teenage pregnancy rate in Europe.

In 1999, the government pledged to halve the teenage conception rate within 10 years.

But data released last week from The Office for National Statistics shows it has clearly failed to make any significant impact.