vision

Is Screen Time Bad For Your Eyes?

Posted in Medicine on 5th Oct, 2014
by Alex Muller

Theres no direct evidence that TVs, computers, or cell phones cause nearsightedness.

SVOne turns the iPhone into an eye test kit

Posted in Hardware on 30th Sep, 2014
by Alex Muller

New York-based Smart Vision Labs has created a low-cost, portable iPhone-based gadget to help people in developing countries to diagnose vision problems.

Declining intelligence in old age linked to visual processing speed

Posted in Medicine on 8th Aug, 2014
by Alex Muller

Age-related declines in intelligence are strongly related to declines on a very simple task of visual perception speed.

Microsoft working on Alice-band device to help blind

Posted in Business on 15th Jul, 2014
by Alex Muller

Microsoft has been working on a device like an Alice band that could help blind people "see" things around them.

Researchers regrow human corneas in mice

Posted in Science on 8th Jul, 2014
by Alex Muller

A team of Boston medical researchers has identified a way to trigger regrowth of human corneal tissue using stem cells.