Advancements in Eyewear Technology for Age-Related Vision Issues
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10mo ago· 5 min readenNews
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Summary
The article discusses the advancements in eyewear technology to address age-related vision issues like presbyopia and myopia. It mentions the development of glasses with lenses that can be manipulated with an electric field to adjust focus. The market for such eyewear tech is expected to grow as the population ages. Start-up firms and researchers are working on lenses that can change their focus.
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"The market for eyewear tech is likely to grow. Presbyopia, an age-related condition that makes it harder to focus on things close to you, is projected to become more common over time as the world's population ages. And myopia, or short-sightedness, is also on the rise,"
"Spectacles have remained largely the same for decades. Bifocal lenses – in which a lens is split into two regions, usually for either near- or far-sightedness – require the wearer to direct their vi"
Start-up firms and researchers are working on lenses that can change their focus.
