Glasses Compensate for Lost Vision [video]

Glasses Compensate for Lost Vision [video]

by | November 4, 2019 | Medical

Macular degeneration, glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, and other visual impairment conditions can severely limit a person’s ability to live independently and to participate in accustomed activities. We’ve written about several technologies for the visually...
Wearable Clip-on Restores Central Vision [video]

Wearable Clip-on Restores Central Vision [video]

by | July 15, 2019 | Medical

Imagine you had to choose between keeping your peripheral or central vision. If you could retain only one of the two for the rest of your life, what would you choose? People with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) don’t have that choice. As their retina...
CMR Headset Assists Low Vision Patients [video]

CMR Headset Assists Low Vision Patients [video]

by | February 19, 2019 | Medical

Wearable health tech isn’t new. If anyone asks who in their right mind would consent to wear techy gadgets voluntarily, the safest answer would be: “Probably you.” Approximately 78% of U.S. adults (194 million of an adult population of 248 million)...
AI Diagnoses Eye Disease [video]

AI Diagnoses Eye Disease [video]

by | September 12, 2018 | General News, Medical

The promise of Big Data is that it will be able to learn quickly from huge data sets and find correlations that might escape the notice of a human analyst. If applied to medical applications, this could lead to faster and more accurate diagnoses, which in turn could...