Smart Glasses Switch Lenses With A Wink

Researchers from Paragon Vision Sciences, Innovega, Pacific Sciences and Engineering,  EPFL and the University of California, San Diego and Rockwell Collins have developed a novel method to electronically switch the wearer's view between normal vision and telescopic - a wink.That kind of switching functionality is crucial for the lenses to be widely useful for non-AMD sufferers who would still like to be able to have magnification "on demand", like if they want to read something.The obvious problem is that we 'wink' every second, but they are instead blinks.Problem solved, in a new prototype system. The electronic glasses use a small light source and light detector to recognize winks and ignore blinks. read more

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