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Traditionally, It has been thought that staring at screens for too long will harm your vision in some way. Parents admonish their children to get away from the TV, and ergonomic studies have shown that long stretches of computer work are not kind on the eyes.
However, contrary to past experience, there may be a certain kind of screen-time that’s good for you. A new study from the University of Rochester has found that playing fast-paced, high action video games can actually increase real-world vision. Daphne Bavelier, a professor of brain and cognitive sciences says that these types of games train [...]

Elizabeth Goldring of MIT is working on a device that may help certain legally blind people see. In some cases of blindness, a functional retina is hidden behind cloudy lenses which block any kind of clear vision. Doctors currently use a large, and very expensive device called a scanning laser opthalmoscope, which can temporarily focus an image on these hidden lenses, allowing people to temporarily see. Goldring’s device replicates this process on a much smaller scale, using a hacked together combination of a digital camera and a color LED back-lit LCD screen. She’s been working on this portable SLO for [...]

If you’ve ever been for an eye exam then you’re familiar with the process of looking through various combinations of lenses as the optometrist attempts to determine your ideal prescription.  Now imagine taking the power and versatility of this rather unwieldy machine and putting all its capabilities in a pair of glasses. That’s exactly what retired Oxford University physics professor Joshua Silver has done by creating the world’s first pair of tunable eyeglasses, a process that has taken him the better part of two decades to develop. Daily Tech explains the technology behind the innovative design:
 His lenses use liquid lenses which [...]