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Super Vision
By john | February 8, 2006
Nice article today on Wired about high-tech glasses that offer the possibilty of giving people better than 20/20 vision. From the article:
Thanks to technologies created for astronomical telescopes and spy satellites, aberrometers can map a person’s eye with extreme accuracy. Lasers bounce off the back of the eyeball, and structures in the eye scatter the resulting beam of light.
Software reads the scattered beam and creates a map of the patient’s eye, including tiny abnormalities such as bumps, growths and valleys. The pixelated eyeglass lens is then tuned to refract light in a way that corrects for those high-level aberrations.
This *should* be a nice development that can greatly enhance people’s vision. Hopefully this will then lead to contact lenses wil the same features, which also allow the wearer to adjust them manually as well.
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