Very Smart Glasses
Autofocal Lenses That Track Your Eyes to Bring What You're Looking at into Focus
New Innovation From Stanford University
More than one billion people in the world have presbyopia, which is an inability to focus on nearby objects after the age of 45. It's age-related farsightedness. To remedy the situation, Stanford University engineers have created a prototype for autofocals. That's a pair of autofocal lenses to restore vision and eliminate the need to wear a progressively stronger series of glasses and eventually go through surgery. The glasses know where the person is looking and automatically adjust to keep things in focus.
Better Than Traditional Glasses
Right now, the autofocals look like Virtual Reality goggles, but the team hopes to streamline the technology. The prototype glasses work like the lens of the eye with fluid inside of the lenses. The autofocals also have an eye tracking system and a depth-sensing camera that enables them to constantly change focus as the field of vision changes. Stanford has developed software that they say keeps the lenses in constant, perfect focus. The glasses have been successfully tested on 56 people. The next step is to downsize the system into light, wearable glasses, which the team thinks may take a couple of years. For a free, Kindle borrow of my book "List of Top New Gadgets", go to amazon.com/author/ekane ASIN: B07RSLHMWK
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New Innovation From Stanford University
More than one billion people in the world have presbyopia, which is an inability to focus on nearby objects after the age of 45. It's age-related farsightedness. To remedy the situation, Stanford University engineers have created a prototype for autofocals. That's a pair of autofocal lenses to restore vision and eliminate the need to wear a progressively stronger series of glasses and eventually go through surgery. The glasses know where the person is looking and automatically adjust to keep things in focus.
Better Than Traditional Glasses
Right now, the autofocals look like Virtual Reality goggles, but the team hopes to streamline the technology. The prototype glasses work like the lens of the eye with fluid inside of the lenses. The autofocals also have an eye tracking system and a depth-sensing camera that enables them to constantly change focus as the field of vision changes. Stanford has developed software that they say keeps the lenses in constant, perfect focus. The glasses have been successfully tested on 56 people. The next step is to downsize the system into light, wearable glasses, which the team thinks may take a couple of years. For a free, Kindle borrow of my book "List of Top New Gadgets", go to amazon.com/author/ekane ASIN: B07RSLHMWK
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