Check out this brilliant
invention: These water-filled lenses can be produced by the millions and adjusted on-site by the users themselves, many of whom stand less than a one in a million chance of ever visiting with an optometrist.
| British inventor Josh Silver, a former professor of physics at Oxford University, has come up with a game-changer of a product design with his water-lensed glasses.[…] |
| 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. […] |
| [W]ith very little guidance people are perfectly capable of creating glasses to their own prescription […] |
| Silver’s goal is to help the hundreds of millions of people in developing countries who suffer from poor eyesight […] |
| [I]n Ghana, Silver met a man … who had been forced to retire as a tailor because he could no longer see to thread the needle … He was about 35… |
| “We put these specs on him, and he smiled, and threaded his needle, and sped up with this sewing machine. He can work now. He can see …” |
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Life-changing, don’t you think?
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