Medical Innovation

Self-adjustable eyeglasses: how one man's vision is helping others to see better

"Can you make an adjustable focus lens?" his friend asked. "My initial response was 'no,'" Prof. Silver told Medical News Today. "Then I said, 'oh yes,' and I made one that afternoon, and I've still got it."

With some tweaks, Prof. Silver developed a lens he could use to correct his own nearsightedness, or myopia, with high accuracy.

"This lens took 10 minutes to make, and I could get very clear vision with it without any practitioner," he told us. "In other words, I found a route to delivering vision correction to myself at very low cost and without the need for any help from a professional. That was really the starting point."

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