I had a chance to meet and talk to Vitor F. Pamplona, one of the inventors of the NETRA: Interactive Display for Refractive Errors and Focal Range during the ongoing American Academy of Optometry meeting in San Francisco. This device allows you to use a cell phone to do a self refraction so that an appropriate pair of glasses can be made. This will allow those individuals in countries without optometrisst to obtain a refraction and corrective eyeware. Most of us in the USA may wonder what the big deal is...but the number cause of visual impairment in the world is not eye disease but uncorrected myopia, hyperopia, astigmatism and presbyopia. Victor was great to talk to and it was obvious that he was very excited about this tool. DM
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