When it comes to staying healthy, your eyes are one of the key areas to focus on. Humans are mainly visual animals and our eyes play a vital role in our daily lives. They not only help us to interpret ...
Innovations in Eyewear and Eye Care
What Does the Future of Eye Technology Look Like?
“Digital Retinal Scan” (CC BY 2.0) by Phillie Casablanca There’s no doubt that eye care has come a long way since the introduction of glasses way back in the 13th century in Italy. From polarised lenses to daily lenses and even coloured contacts, ...
Regenerated Retina Using Neuronal Reprogramming
A stained vertical wild-type retinal section (left) and a schematic representation of retinal tissue (right). (image from Cell reports under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works license) Researchers from the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona have discovered a ...
Newly Developed Microbots can Help Prevent Blindness
A microrobot to measure the eye’s oxygen supply (Credit: Ergeneman O. et al, IEEE Tran Biomed Eng. 2012) We need Oxygen. All the cells in our body including our lungs and brain but also our retina need oxygen otherwise permanent ...
The EyeBorg Project
The EyeBorg Project is the work of Rob Spence, a one-eyed Canadian filmmaker and Kosta Grammatis, a former avionics systems engineer. Spence and Grammatis have teamed up with Phil Bowen, an ocularist, and Steve Mann, an expert on wearable computing ...
FotoNation Red 2.0
The California based company FotoNation has developed technology to remove red eyes from photos, called Red 2.0. It can be used in numerous products besides digital cameras, such as photo printers, PDAs, or mobile phones with photographing abilities. Unlike similar ...
A Spherical Camera Sensor
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have recently built a spherical camera that follows the form and function of a human eye by building a circuit onto a curved surface, allowing a wide field of view that can’t ...
Worm with Sight
A team from the University in Michigan, led by Shawn Xu, has discovered that tiny worms can sense light. This discovery may lead to further breakthroughs in the research of vision, helping researchers understand the basis of human vision diseases ...
COGAIN – Gaming Without your Hands
Stephen Vickers of De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, has developed a new technology for people with severe motor disabilities, allowing them to play 3D computer games using only their eyes. The new technology brings hope to disabled gaming-lovers who usually ...
New Bionic Eye Could Restore Sight
Researchers working for the Boston Retinal Implant Project have been developing a bionic eye implant that could restore the eye sight of people who suffer from age-related blindness. Although the bionic eye will only help individuals that were born with ...