Tag: Eye

Glasses help minimise epileptic fits or relieve the symptoms of depression with light. For motorcyclists, however, too much light can be a serious hazard. Enter an Italian startup and its new visor which automatically adjusts to light conditions using a layer of liquid crystals. Their arrangement is determined by a small solar panel in the helmet, and changes depending...

A lamp detects epileptic fits. In the meantime, a Viennese startup has developed treatment glasses which use light to alleviate the symptoms of depression. Depression also manifests itself when the brain’s network grows rigid, compromising its ability to make new connections between nerve cells and - to put it simply - think about something else. The treatment glasses deliver...

Special glasses reduce age-related visual impairment. A healthy human eye can see with an astonishing resolution of 25,000 ppi, a density that no electronic display has ever matched. Until now. Enter a Swedish research team that, with the help of tungsten oxide, has reduced pixel size to 560 nanometres. Corresponding to the size of one light-sensitive receptor cell in...

A smart pen deciphers Braille characters. But participating fully in digital life remains a challenge for those with no or limited vision. Enter a New York-based research team and its sparkling idea. The team’s square display contains 100 evenly arranged circular silicone sheets, each measuring 2mm in diameter. The sheets can be made to pop up within 0.24 milliseconds...

New glasses make blind spots visible again. In Australia, however, a research team is focusing on how to treat retinal diseases such as macular degeneration in the early stages of the condition. Preferably without the need for the injections. Lipo-soluble pigments from Gac fruit were integrated into a solution similar to eye drops. Using nanotechnology allowed the pigments -...

Smart glasses can protect blind people from collisions. Dogs are not immune to losing their sight either. Which is why Texas-based students are focusing on a solution that will stop blind dogs injuring themselves while out playing or walking. Their innovation: a smart vest with a hood. Attached to it at eye level are two cameras, with 8 vibrating...

Herbs and spices can aid memory and indigestion. Now, a blind female chef is aiming to make cooking safer for blind or vision-impaired people. In a series of accessible videos, she provides tips, cooks different recipes and introduces helpful tools. Like measuring spoons with tactile raised dots that make it easier to get quantities right. Or a ceramic coin...

A digital pen can detect and translate Braille in real time. Now, a Swiss startup has developed smart glasses to help blind people or those with limited vision detect obstacles and move around safely. Two radar sensors in the frames, which run for six hours on a single charge, scan the area above chest-level. An algorithm then analyses the...