Mantis shrimps have amazing eyes, able to see more colours than humans can, and also able to see circulalrly polarised light. Studying how these eyes work could have lots of benefits for future technologies.
Shrimp eyes could help develop new technologies
October 26th, 2009Interesting Patient – Usher Syndrome
October 15th, 2009Recently we had a gentleman visit us who has the rare condition, Usher Syndrome.
You can read more about it here, and here, but it is a rare genetic condition that can cause deafness and blindness. He had been trying to get lenses that would aid his vision and was recommended to us by a colleague of his.
The use of an orange lens which had the ability to change from light to dark and back from Bolle Optical was just the answer.
He is delighted with these lenses, which filter out harmful light and reduce glare significantly.
Bionic Eyes
September 29th, 2009Helping the visually impaired to see better, or to enhance the natural vision of the unimpaired using technology is an amazing science that is in its infancy, but huge strides are being made in this fledgling discipline.
Here are some links to more information.
Bionic Eyes
Bionic eyes benefit the blind
First look at ‘bionic eyes’
Vision Quest
Eye Stuff For Kids
September 29th, 2009We’ve just added some links on our main website specially for younger people to learn more about eyes and also to have some fun while they are doing it.
Interesting Eyes
September 29th, 2009Here are a few links to websites with photos about eyes. If you want to see some sciencey ones, then have a look at our main webpage and click on the Zeiss Retinal Atlas on the menu to the left. These are more for fun!
Interesting Eyes has lots of people photo’s but there are also some neat things done with eyes by some of the photographers.