Self-prescribed Glasses Using Adaptive Optics
A TED prize winner, Josh Silver, explains how millions of glasses can be prescribed and produced then given to world citizens who need them. It turns out that many of the significant barriers to good eye health are system-created and thus can be overcome.
Glasses without the need for an optometrist; and for under 19 dollars a pair (shooting for under a dollar).
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.