Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Where Eye Care Is A Luxury, Technology Offers Access by Larry Abramson from National Public Radio

For millions of people in the developing world, one thing stands between them and a job or an education: a good pair of glasses. Quality eye care is often a luxury in areas where health services are scarce. So researchers and entrepreneurs are looking for breakthrough technologies to bring the cost of glasses and eye exams way down.
One group thinks that smartphones could help provide needed access to vision health care. Researchers at EyeNetra, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology spinoff company, are working on a device that would turn the phones into eye exam machines.
"Our goal, really, is to empower millions and millions around the world by bringing eye care to people's homes in a way that was never possible before," says EyeNetra's David Schafran.

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  1. Our society is a knowledge-based economy. The education that students receive is significant to their survival and prosperity in the work environment, or in their adaptation to college life. Their education must prepare them to enter a world that is located on the information highway. The technology available is quite diverse and applicable in a variety of ways. School of technology

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