Google the technology diva has shown once more that there is no limit to implementing technology. On 5th April 2012, Google showed the world the first look of its special eye glasses which blend the real world and the online world.  Literally speaking Google has a vision of letting people look at life through internet tainted glasses. Google firmly believes that technology should be at the beck and call of humans, at the same time should become obscure when it is not required.  Keeping this goal in mind a group of expert visionaries from Google X (Labs) launched Project Glass. This project was launched with the aim to design a kind of technology which will help humans to explore and share their world. The images featured people wearing eye glasses with stylish silver frames that featured  [...] 

Richard Taylor, a Univ. of Oregon scientist is endeavouring to develop flowers which could assist individuals with lost vision like those ailing from macular degeneration in seeing once more. These nanoflowers aren’t tulip, rose or columbine but generated from nano-size metal particles which are growing or self-assembling in an innate process – fractal growth or DLA (diffusion-limited aggregation). These would be fractals – (a trade-mark building-block of nature) which would be mimicking & communicating effectually with neurons. Fractal is defined as an object having uneven curvatures or forms, from which any single constituent when observed under-microscope too has the analogous form. An eye surgeon would be implanting such fractal device inside the eye of a sightless patient,  [...] 

Artistically flipping molten chocolate all over a meringue-filled cart, head-cook J. Miller adds her signature final touches to the dessert dish. It’s mid-morning time in the Concept Kitchen in Britain located in a modest bureau block in core Birmingham where many companies & charitable trusts rent rooms to train people and hold classes. Shortly, about twenty-five representatives would be filing through for lunch-time and the menu-card is truly mouth-watering with an array of dishes in the offing. The head chef bends closely for inspecting her creation and chortles which admitting to not being able to truly see what she does. J. Miller is not joking as she is legally blind. So is the case with the 5 other kitchen workforce that are busy in lunch preparation near the head chef. The Concept  [...] 

A small range of light sensitive diodes were able to restore an extent of eyesight to miniscule numbers of retinitis pigmentosa (RP) patients, a study scientist stated. The chip implantation within the retinal regions of 11 RP patients was done who were sightless for thirteen years to nearly four decades. No notable side-effects were observed among these patients according to spokesperson of the German maker of these devices, Retinal Implant AG of Tubingen, Mr. W. Wrobel who also demonstrated recordings that showed an entrant in the preliminary trial capable of recognizing letter, word types alongside identifying fruit forms according to shape and other entrants also exhibiting analogous favourable outcomes. RP is a condition arising due to progressive death of photoreceptors commencing at  [...] 

A vitamin-based medicine could help in preventing blindness occurring in scores of individuals as they start aging, physicians deem. The therapy was capable of halting the most pervasive reason for sightlessness in older individuals during studies. Scientists who worked on creating the medicine, fenretinide noted that it stopped the progress of AMD or age related macular degeneration – a condition for which presently there is absence of any treatment. Scientists during the course of the trial were targeting the highly common type of eye problem known as dry age related macular degeneration that arises due to macula cells deteriorating and dying. The macula cells are part of the retinal area employed for seeing directly ahead. This eye condition tends to rob the people suffering from it their  [...] 

Physicians from France cited that those people who try to get a high through vapour inhalation of alkyl nitrite (capsular form), prevalently called as ‘poppers’ could gravely harm light sensing cells which line the retinal area of the eyes. The physicians looked at 4 patients over a period of 3 months who had experienced partial vision loss shortly following the use of alkyl nitrite drug and stated that other cases too have been uncovered. ‘Poppers’ is a drug that has been believed to enhance pleasure derived from sexual activities and a popular choice by pub-hoppers or the club-going crowds since several years. Doctor M. Paques who is part of the trial stated that they certainly have concrete proof to notify the masses regarding the visual toxicity of alkyl nitrite pills. The audible  [...] 

With aspirations to assist individuals incapable of seeing to locate an easier means of getting around, an ingenious designer from Israel, Naom Klopper has unveiled an out of the ordinary electronic substitute for walking sticks. The invention is known as the VIA or Visually Impaired Assistant is devised for proffering such individuals a second vision. The Visually impaired Assistant is a couple of metallic devices fitting snugly around the frame of the hands & created for giving feedbacks on the basis of the person’s positions in relation to motionless items and those in motion like bulky means of transport which one might like to steer clear from. The VIA employs VMD or Video Motion Detection technology & a vocally operational Global Positioning System or GPS receiver that work  [...] 

With the world around us becoming increasingly tech-savvy, thinking about ways of adapting this constantly evolving state of affairs to the benefit of the disabled people is of paramount importance. Brainovi is one such technological innovation for the visually impaired developed by trio youngsters from Korea – designers Seol-Hee Son, Seung-Hyun Yoon and Ji-Youn Kim. In case you have visually impairment then to get around with a global positioning system (GPS) navigation gadget may not be the smartest move to make until one is reliant on its tone step-by-step instructions (& on feet, to boots). Brainovi is a conceptual handy Braille navigation aid employing a merger of spoken instructions and contact display to assist visually impaired people in travelling independently. It is as simple  [...] 

Scores of individual having partial blindness after strokes or brain injuries can now be more independent with due credit to the uncomplicated, cost-effective & accessible training course that would sooner or later be obtainable on their mobiles or manual gaming consoles, as per a novel research. The novel study has revealed that a computer based method created and evaluated by Durham Univ. enhanced the capability of seeing better among the half-blind individuals. It might ultimately enhance and widen the range of rehab methods for partially blind patients. The research appearing in ‘Brain’ journal involved testing the method on patient groups suffering from a vision affection condition known as hemianopia. Hemianopia afflicts more than four thousand individuals in the United Kingdom  [...] 

The August edition of Ophthalmology has revealed an astounding study wherein investigators from the Tokyo Medical & Dental Univ. have reported on the foremost definite ‘map’ of myopic maculopathy, an ailment which afflicts several people with acute nearsightedness. The study additionally examines the map as a means of forecasting which patients having myopic maculopathy have the maximum likelihood of suffering from vision loss due to the condition. The uncomplicated ease of access to the eyes and the proven association in-between particular heritable flaws and visual disorders proffer sanguinity for deploying gene therapy to garner long-standing curative gains. Duo studies appearing in the peer-assessed journal ‘Human Gene Therapy’ illustrate the effectual substitution of a human  [...]