Eye injuries are the leading cause of blindness in children in the United States and most injuries occurring in school-aged children are sports-related. These injuries account for an estimated 100,000 physician visits per year at a cost of more than $175 million. Ninety percent of sports-related eye injuries can be avoided with the use of … [Read more...]
The winter months can prove to be especially frustrating for people with low vision problems due to the reduced light both indoors and outdoors. Low Vision aids like Low Vision UV filters can help! Lemon is an especially good filter color in low winter light as it: Maximizes brightness Enhances contrast in low light Improves … [Read more...]
They are not alone if they do! I just watched a movie in 3D at an expensive luxury theater, $20 per seat! First of all the 3D glasses were just thrown in a tray from the previous showing, not cleaned, just there for our "convenience". Yuk, I wanted to leave at that point. But my husband dutifully cleaned mine and his, then I struggled to wear them … [Read more...]
I was sorry to read that Jay Jay French's 18 year old daughter Samantha suffers from the debilitating eye disease, Uveitis. The good news is because of his daughter's condition, Jay Jay French has been an outspoken voice for the uveitis awareness cause for a few years now. "When my daughter was six, she had a routine eye exam at school … [Read more...]
There is an old saying: "Safety begins at home". I remember hearing as a child! But didn't realize how true it is until we did a post last month "Who Says Eye Injuries Can’t Happen at Home?" I realized my own husband was at that very moment crawling around on scaffolding, 3 stories high, using power tools and wearing regular prescription rather … [Read more...]
You have may have heard by now of Kamra, a 3.8 mm device that when implanted will allow the user to have great newvision and retain distance vision. 'It is an opaque disc with a tiny opening of only 1.6mm in the center along with 8400 micro-openings along the surface of the inlay to help maintain a healthy cornea. When inserted in the cornea the … [Read more...]
As many of you know, Prevent Blindness America, the nation’s oldest volunteer eye health and safety organization, has declared October as Home Eye Safety Awareness Month in an effort to urge the public to take extra care in protecting their eyes in order to avoid painful and potentially blinding eye accidents. We know there are a lot of DIY … [Read more...]
You have probably read about Rob Spence, the documentary maker who films through a camera fitted into his prosthetic eye. You can read more about Rob Spence and his Eyeborg project on his website. … [Read more...]
An interesting new lens came to our attention by one of our readers. ChromaGen Lens for dyslexia. Here is what the website says: ChromaGen™, lenses are a life changing aid for patients with visual reading disorders associated with Dyslexia, as well as an optical corrective solution for color deficiency commonly known as Color Blindness. … [Read more...]
Do You Use Weather To Your Advantage? With much of the country sweltering in the 90's plus, our heat and humidity levels are rivaled only by those of the tropics. Every morning when I arrive at work it's an easy stroll to the door. I enter the security code and in I walk in, trouble free. Not today. As soon as I stepped out of the car my … [Read more...]
I don't know if you have ever heard of kickstarter. Kickstarter is a website for people to raise money. Money for a new business or in this case Tany Vlach, wants money for a new eye. She has raised $6800 to date. Here is her story on Kickstarter 'Thanks for visiting my page! I am attempting to recreate my eye with the help of a miniature … [Read more...]
Every time I see one of these itsy bitsy sculptures, I am amazed by these peach pit carvings an ancient art form going back to China. Less than an inch long Peach Pits have been craved for thousands of years, starting in China Nut carving (Heidao), which refers to both fruit pit and walnut carving, became popular during the … [Read more...]
The interactive Guide Dog could help the visually impaired get around better and improve mobility for those less fortunate; G-Navi combines GPS navigation & a hands-free voice control system as well as vibrating-calibration technology to steer the guide dog to any waypoint the user selects. The pup’s harness even features a solar panel for … [Read more...]
As of the end of 2006, there were 597,109 active certificated pilots, according to the AOPA Jan. 12, 07 newsletter which cites the FAA's estimates. This number has been declining slowly over the long term, down from a high of over 827,000 pilots in 1980. The numbers include: 84,866 student pilots 242 recreational pilots 939 sport … [Read more...]
Neuroscientist Paul Bach-y-Rita hypothesized in the 1960s that "we see with our brains not our eyes." Now, a new device trades on that thinking and aims to partially restore the experience of vision for the blind and visually impaired by relying on the nerves on the tongue's surface to send light signals to the brain. Legal blindness is defined … [Read more...]
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