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This is really good stuff. An inventor who looked at the problem of people who cannot see properly and set out to make a difference.
Brilliant!! British inventor Josh Silver began working on eyeglasses that can be tuned by the wearer in 1985. His goal is to bring better vision to a billion people worldwide who cannot afford, or don’t have access to, an optometrist. Silver has devised a pair of glasses which rely on the principle that the fatter a lens the more powerful it becomes. Inside the device’s tough plastic lenses are two clear circular sacs filled with fluid, each of which is connected to a small syringe attached to either arm of the spectacles. The wearer adjusts a dial on the syringe to add or reduce amount of fluid in the membrane, thus changing the power of the lens. When the wearer is happy with the strength of each lens the membrane is sealed by twisting a small screw, and the syringes removed. The principle is so simple, the team has discovered, that with very little guidance people are perfectly capable of creating glasses to their own prescription. Silver’s goal is to distribute a billion pairs of his adaptive glasses to poor people by 2020 (the pun in the year is intended, I’m sure). Already, 30,000 pairs have been given out in 15 countries. “The reaction is universal,” says Major Kevin White, formerly of the US military’s humanitarian programme, who organised the distribution of thousands of pairs around the world after discovering Silver’s glasses on Google. “People put them on, and smile. They all say, ‘Look, I can read those tiny little letters.’” Silver hopes to get the cost of manufacturing each pair down to a dollar each http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/dec/22/diy-adjustable-glasses-josh-silver |
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This is really good stuff. An inventor who looked at the problem of people who cannot see properly and set out to make a difference. Brilliant!! British inventor Josh Silver began working on eyeglasses that can be tuned by the wearer in 1985. His goal is to bring better vision to a billion people worldwide who cannot afford, or don’t have access to, an optometrist. Silver has devised a pair of glasses which rely on the principle that the fatter a lens the more powerful it becomes. Inside the device’s tough plastic lenses are two clear circular sacs filled with fluid, each of which is connected to a small syringe attached to either arm of the spectacles. The wearer adjusts a dial on the syringe to add or reduce amount of fluid in the membrane, thus changing the power of the lens. When the wearer is happy with the strength of each lens the membrane is sealed by twisting a small screw, and the syringes removed. The principle is so simple, the team has discovered, that with very little guidance people are perfectly capable of creating glasses to their own prescription. Silver’s goal is to distribute a billion pairs of his adaptive glasses to poor people by 2020 (the pun in the year is intended, I’m sure). Already, 30,000 pairs have been given out in 15 countries. “The reaction is universal,” says Major Kevin White, formerly of the US military’s humanitarian programme, who organised the distribution of thousands of pairs around the world after discovering Silver’s glasses on Google. “People put them on, and smile. They all say, ‘Look, I can read those tiny little letters.’” Silver hopes to get the cost of manufacturing each pair down to a dollar each http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/dec/22/diy-adjustable-glasses-josh-silver It's a pity that are not more like him out there. And without PDA ,and other organizations like that in other countries, regulating the prices, life could be much more easy on a lot of people. Kudos to that man. |
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I have to say when looking at the list of forum posts I had to smile when I saw the thread name and then the last poster name of invisible.
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It's amazing what we can do when we simply give a sh$t....
I love seeing these stories. |
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I have to say when looking at the list of forum posts I had to smile when I saw the thread name and then the last poster name of invisible. Maybe I should change my name to visibly invisible? 
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