New Contact Lenses Use Gold to Correct Color Blindness

New Contact Lenses Use Gold to Correct Color Blindness

if you are among the 8% of males or 0.5% of females with color vision deficiency (CVD), take heart. An economical wearable may be on the way. A team of researchers from Khalifa University (KU) and Imperial College London are collaborating on development of reusable...
FDA Approves Upgraded System For The Blind

FDA Approves Upgraded System For The Blind

Retinal implants are attention-getters. Everyone understands the dramatic benefit of helping blind people see, similar to helping wheelchair-bound people rise up and walk on their own. We’ve written about retinal implants several times in the past few years. We...
AI-Powered Assistive Glasses for the Blind [video]

AI-Powered Assistive Glasses for the Blind [video]

We wrote about Envision’s smartphone app paired with Google Glass smart eyewear for vision-impaired persons earlier this year in March. At that time, the platform was in the preorder stage and Envision expected to ship the system in August. Then a pandemic...