Self-prescribed Glasses Using Adaptive Optics
Adjustable Liquid-Filled Eyeglasses
Joshua Silver
TED stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design and the TED prize of $100,000 is given each year to three exceptional individuals who are also granted “one wish to Change the World.” Their wishes are unveiled at a ceremony held during the TED conference which spotlights innovative individuals from all over the world.
Josh Silver has been working on a solution to the overwhelming shortage of eye specialists in areas of the world and has developed glasses selling for $19 (US) which are made by any individual who needs them without help from a “specialist.”
His “wish” was to lower the cost to a mere dollar and distribute a billion of the glasses to those who need them in the world by 2020.