Eyejusters Self-Adjusting Glasses

Adjustable Eyejusters Glasses Let You Alter Your Own Prescription! | Inhabitat

Eyejusters are just like a regular set of glasses except they are self-adjustable, allowing the wearer to alter the focus at the twist of a dial. It is hoped that the glasses will be able to help those in the developing world who don’t have access to the glasses they need.

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Introduction to Eyejusters - YouTube

Source: Introduction to Eyejusters - YouTube

Eyejusters - Self-adjustable glasses

Each SlideLens in a pair of Eyejusters is adjusted to suit a user’s eyes with the simple turn of a dial, so almost anyone can dispense them. They're durable, easy to clean, have attractive metal frames that fit most faces, and come in a range of colours.

Stunning SlideLens technology

The SlideLens adjustable lens technology is the product of intense engineering, manufacturing and optical design. We've designed, simulated and measured the lenses with nanometre-scale precision to ensure the best quality optical experience. Try out a demo →

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How to use Eyejusters - YouTube

Source: How to use Eyejusters - YouTube

Eyejusters - self-adjustable glasses designed for the developing world

There are two different types of SlideLens - positive power (for long-sightedness) and negative power (for short-sightedness). The range of the positive power lenses is from +4.5 to 0 diopters, while the range of the negative power lenses is from 0 to -5.0 diopters. This covers the majority of common cases. The glasses are priced at US$39.95 for the individual buyer, but the main aim is to distribute these to people in the developing world.

A pair of Eyejusters glasses being worn in Malawi

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The Eye Language of Dilated Pupils

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What Do Dilated Pupils Mean?

It is said that the eyes are the windows to the soul, but is it true? Could the eyes really be a portal that reveals true feelings about another? When attracted to another, there are some things that can be controlled, but pupil dilation is not one of them.

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Psychological effects

The pupil dilates in extreme psychical situations (e.g., fear) or contact of a sensory nerve, such as pain. The Task-evoked pupillary response is the tendency of pupils to dilate slightly in response to loads on working memory, increased attention, sensory discrimination, or other cognitive loads

Facial expressions of sadness with small pupils are judged significantly more intensely sad with decreasing pupil size though people are unaware of pupil size affecting their judgment. A person's own pupil size also mirrors this with them being smaller when viewing sad faces with small pupils. There is no parallel effect when people look at neutral, happy or angry expressions.

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Do Your Eyes Give You Away?

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Can your eyes give away how much you’re thinking — even when you’re not consciously aware of your effort? According to new research, the answer is yes.

Dutch researcher Erik Bijleveld and colleagues recruited 15 participants to take part in an experiment measuring cognitive effort on a task for various amounts of money. They measured the brain effort required to complete the task through eye pupil dilation. Why would you care about pupil dilation, an automatic nervous system response? Well, it appears that you can tell a lot by the size of your pupils, because it expands with sympathetic activity, making it an unobtrusive measure of how much mental effort you’ve invested in a particular task.

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The researchers summarized their findings succinctly: “More generally, whereas analyses of costs (required effort) and benefits (value of rewards) are usually thought to require consciousness, our findings suggest that such strategic processes can occur outside of awareness — and these processes show in the eyes.”

Reference:

Bijleveld, E., Custers, R. & Aarts, H. (2009). The Unconscious Eye Opener: Pupil Dilation Reveals Strategic Recruitment of Resources Upon Presentation of Subliminal Reward Cues. Psychological Science. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2009.02443.x.

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Bionic Eye Technology

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Visual prosthesis

A visual prosthesis or bionic eye is a form of neural prosthesis intended to partially restore lost vision or amplify existing vision. It usually takes the form of an externally-worn camera that is attached to a stimulator on the retina, optic nerve, or in the visual cortex, in order to produce perceptions in the visual cortex.

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Trials for 'bionic' eye implants

BIONIC EYE TECHNOLOGY 1: Camera on glasses views image 2: Signals are sent to hand-held device 3: Processed information is sent back to glasses and wirelessly transmitted to receiver under surface of eye 4: Receiver sends information to electrodes in retinal implant 5: Electrodes stimulate retina to send information to brain

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This is a clip from The Human Body: Pushing the Limits documenting a bionic eye. A blind woman has been implanted with devices inside the visual cortex. Electrodes transmit information from a video camera directly to her brain allowing here to see images.

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Retina Implant Technology

Retina impant technology involves the use of microelectronics and microchip electrodes surcigally implanted into the back of the eye (retina) to restore the function of the damaged light-activated cells found there (photoreceptors).

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Artificial Retina Project

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Australian bionic eye can be reality by 2020

The bionic eye was identified as a key health goal for Australia at the 2020 Summit, held in Canberra on April 19-20, and Professor Nigel Lovell, from the UNSW Australian Vision Prosthesis Group (AVPG), said a functional device can be a reality within 12 years with a concerted national effort.

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The powerhouse museum in Sydney has a display on the history of the
bionic eye featuring AVPG devices

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Eyeballs Control

clipped from www.pcworld.com Researchers Turn to Eyeballs to Control Devices Researchers at NTT DoCoMo have developed a set of prototype in-ear headphones that can detect and measures changes in the body's electrical state that take place when your eyes move, and have harnessed this technology to control the music player on a mobile phone. clipped from www.dailymail.co.uk Introducing the gadgets you can control with your eyes A researcher for NTT DoCoMo demonstrates how to control a digital music player with his eyes in Tokyo The new technology from Japanese mobile giant NTT DoCoMo may also enable cell phone cameras to read bar codes to get product information, download music and coupons when the user simply looks at the codes. 'We are working on a cell phone of the future,' Masaaki Fukumoto, executive research engineer at NTT said. clipped from www.youtube.com CEATEC: Eyeballs control a cell phone NTT DoCoMo showed a set of prototype in-ear headphones that can detect and measures changes in the body's electrical state when your eyes move.

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1. Researchers Turn to Eyeballs to Control Devices - PC World
2. Introducing the gadgets you can control with your eyes | Mail Online
3. YouTube - CEATEC: Eyeballs control a cell phone

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Contact Lenses with Mobile Phone Display

clipped from www.textually.org Contact Lenses Could Project Mobile Phone Displays Directly into the Eye Imagine walking down the street and as your mobile phone rings, the name of the caller suddenly appears floating in the air in front of you. That is one of the possibilities offered by a new contact lens which incorporates electronic circuits which can create a type of heads-up display, right within the eyeball. Cellular News reports. "Engineers at the University of Washington have for the first time used manufacturing techniques at microscopic scales to combine a flexible, biologically safe contact lens with an imprinted electronic circuit and lights. clipped from www.cellular-news.com A researcher holds one of the completed lenses Contact lenses with metal connectors for electronic circuits were safely worn by rabbits in lab tests Ideally, installing or removing the bionic eye would be as easy as popping a contact lens in or out, and once installed the wearer would barely know the gadget was there, Parviz said.

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Contact Lenses Could Project Mobile Phone Displays Directly into the Eye
Researchers put circuits on contact lenses, freak out rabbits - Engadget
Heads-up displays, "super-vision," via contact lenses | Futurismic
uwnews.org | Contact lenses with circuits, lights a possible platform for superhuman vision | University of Washington News and Information
Update 01/22/08:
Microelectronics technology | Eyeing up a new technology | Economist.com
Photos: LEDs in your contact lenses? | CNET News.com
Heads up display built into contact lenses | Beyond the Beyond from Wired.com
The vision of the future seen in bionic contact lens - Frontiers- msnbc.com

Moving Your Eyes Improves Memory

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If you’re looking for a quick memory fix, move your eyes from side-to-side for 30 seconds, researchers say.

Horizontal eye movements are thought to cause the two hemispheres of the brain to interact more with one another, and communication between brain hemispheres is important for retrieving certain types of memories.

Previous studies have suggested that horizontal eye movements improve how well people recall specific words they have just seen. But Andrew Parker and his colleagues at Manchester Metropolitan University in England wanted to know whether such eye movements might also help people recognize words they have just seen.

Moving Your Eyes Improves Memory, Study Suggests | LiveScience

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