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control your eyesight in the blink of an eye
Controlling your eyesight in the blink of an eye is now possible thanks to an invention by Smart Vision Labs, the SVOne. Much cheaper than traditional equipment, it works in part thanks to an iPhone 5s.
This is probably the medical appointment that we postpone until we are unable to make a meter without entering a piece of furniture or that we crease our foreheads to the extreme to read something. The ophthalmologist is expensive, you have to wait a long time before having a date and sometimes, the care management leaves something to be desired.
These kinds of problems, Zhou Yaopeng and Marc Albanese, two former photonics researchers, decided to solve them by creating the startup Smart Vision Labs, and SVOne, a tool that only requires an iPhone 5s to operate and check the vision of patients. They just have to look in the box smart health connected to the smartphone for it take a series of shots of each eye. The application then takes care of carrying out a diagnosis and indicate the type and strength of the corrections to apply to treat their vision problems.
Cheaper than traditional devices
The device, very easy to use is much cheaper than the equipment normally required to carry out these types of tests, the price of which ranges between $ 20,000 and $ 40,000. SVOne only costs 4,000 euros and is already used in more than 200 eye clinics in the United States and Canada. The start-up has announced it has raised $ 6.1 million in order to create more models. More than a gadget, make this technology available to doctors would allow more than a billion people to be able to regularly check the quality of their vision.
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