Water-filled glasses, adjustable for anyone, may change 3rd-world life
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.
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Life-changing, don’t you think?
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Written by Monte
January 2, 2009 at 11:19 pm
Posted in healthcare, Poverty, science and technology, Social change
Tagged with Developing country, Glasses, India, Josh Silver, Lens, Oxford University, Physics, Product design
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Kip
January 8, 2019 at 2:40 pm
Wow, Monte, that so totally ROCKS! I have to wear contact lenses just to be able to find my glasses, and I think of how hard it must be for people too poor or too far away to get any help with stuff like this. Dang, this is great news.
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January 7, 2009 at 2:29 am
Beautifully clever! I love it.
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Toma Ion
January 3, 2009 at 5:04 am