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by Bruce Brown | November 20, 2015 | General News, Health
In their later years, my mother suffered from severe macular degeneration and my father-in-law lost most of his vision due to diabetes. As two of an estimated 280 million people in the world with impaired vision from macular degeneration, degenerative myopia,...
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by Alfred Poor | October 29, 2015 | General News, Medical
According to the Glaucoma Research Foundation, glaucoma is a leading cause of blindness, and even 10% of patients who receive treatment still suffer some loss of vision. More than 3 million people in the U.S. have this condition, but only about half know that...
by Alfred Poor | October 21, 2015 | Enabling Tech, General News, Medical, Uncategorized
Liquid crystals were discovered nearly 150 years ago, though it was not until 1962 that they were viewed as a way to create flat panel displays. The cigar-shaped molecules have the useful characteristic of aligning with each other under normal circumstances, but will...
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by Alfred Poor | August 13, 2015 | Medical
When you think about it, a contact lens is really a prosthetic device. It’s an object that we put on a part of the human body to help it function better. But some patients with limited vision need much more than a contact lens. They need a device that can...
by Alfred Poor | August 7, 2015 | Enabling Tech
The head-mounted display market is a lot bigger than just Google Glass. In the past, we’ve written about the Vuzix M100 Smart Glasses that are available for both enterprise and consumer applications. The glasses are a complete Android computer that you wear on...
