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Researchers create glasses that adjust depth and focus automatically

Jan 26, 2017

A new paper published in the journal Optics Express unveiled research to create ‘smart glasses’ that use liquid lenses to adjust their focus, potentially replacing bifocals and the need for reading glasses. The...

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New devices which can help the ‘legally blind’ to see

Amanda

Jan 24, 2015

Health

Special glasses designed by eSight Corporation now allow some people who have been declared ‘legally blind’ to see pretty clearly. Since an overwhelmingly large percentage of people (85percent) who have been de...

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Fossilized fish eye rods and cones suggests color vision is at least 300 million years old

Amanda

Dec 24, 2014

Innovation

An amazingly well preserved 10 centimeter long fossilized fish found in the Hamilton Quarry (Kansas) suggests that the fish have been seeing the world in color since at least 300 million years. Since the fossil...

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