See your leg for the first time in years. It was what happened to one of the first people who tested the Smart Glasses, smart goggles created to improve the quality of life of those who have low visibility. The idea came from the University of Oxford, with the collaboration of the Royal National Institute for the blind of United Kingdom. Although University researchers had spent several years working on the project, the institution was joined two: "We advise to ensure that sunglasses are useful and helping organize tests to test the product with users".
Lenses, which in the United Kingdom known as glasses of Star Trek - for being similar to the high-tech display used in the series by the Lieutenant Commander of the Enterprise, Geordi La Forge - even as a prototype and the team led by Dr. Stephen L. Hicks continues to work to obtain a final version. The interim model has already been tested successfully in trouble as the degeneration macular, diabetic retinopathy, retinitis pigmentosa, or optic Neuropathies. "Although still missing a time so they can go on sale", point out from the Institute.
Nine months ago, Hannah Thompson, with partial blindness, put the glasses for the first time. The second was more than one month ago. He now believes that there is much time to walk confidently down the street. Has it on his blog, Blind Spot: "French cheese has always liked me, but going to buy is frustrating. "Labels and prices are impossible to see, and I can even see which products are running when I ask Council and show it me". The last June, Thompson could decide, quiet, much of Chabichou wanted to take home: "Perhaps for the first time in my life, made a decision to buy not only based on the advice of others, but in what I knew with security that it was against me".
What Thompson felt, fits perfectly with the objective of the team. "People with vision problems give aid that increases your awareness of what you have around. Which means greater freedom, independence and confidence, and a better quality of life", commented Dr. Hicks last June 17 when, for the first time, the glasses were tested in public spaces.
The lenses operates through a 3D camera, explained from the National Institute for the blind, "we separate ways and nearby objects and we can show them more clearly through small transparent screens that are part of the glasses". Who clashed before with a Pole on the street, you can now avoid it. Who before not distinguished who was opposite, can now recognize his features. "There are, girl", said Lyn Oliver to Jesus, his dog guide, when to wear the goggles, it distinguished itself by first. The septuagenario suffers from retinitis pigmentosa since 20 years.
As Hannah Thompson and Lyn Oliver, United Kingdom there are 360,000 registered as blind or with some visual deficiency, according to the Institute: "we estimate that about 300,000 of these people have some vision and at least half of them could benefit from these glasses. The Smart Glasses could help 150,000 people here and some 15 million worldwide". 15 million that could be a mirror for the first time.
The push from Google
The Google Impact Challenge is a contest that presents projects that make a world better, faster", as its slogan says. The Smart Glasses won the 2014 from United Kingdom. 600,000 euros to help the production and distribution of sunglasses. "Thanks to Google we will be able to build 100 pairs that we provide for free to 1,000 people in the United Kingdom and Europe," they have from the Royal National Institute for the blind of United Kingdom. With the results of those tests, they will eventually define the features and details. "It is the first test of a project like this," comment, proud, from the English institution.
Nine months ago, Hannah Thompson, with partial blindness, put the glasses for the first time. The second was more than one month ago. He now believes that there is much time to walk confidently down the street. Has it on his blog, Blind Spot: "French cheese has always liked me, but going to buy is frustrating. "Labels and prices are impossible to see, and I can even see which products are running when I ask Council and show it me". The last June, Thompson could decide, quiet, much of Chabichou wanted to take home: "Perhaps for the first time in my life, made a decision to buy not only based on the advice of others, but in what I knew with security that it was against me".
What Thompson felt, fits perfectly with the objective of the team. "People with vision problems give aid that increases your awareness of what you have around. Which means greater freedom, independence and confidence, and a better quality of life", commented Dr. Hicks last June 17 when, for the first time, the glasses were tested in public spaces.
The lenses operates through a 3D camera, explained from the National Institute for the blind, "we separate ways and nearby objects and we can show them more clearly through small transparent screens that are part of the glasses". Who clashed before with a Pole on the street, you can now avoid it. Who before not distinguished who was opposite, can now recognize his features. "There are, girl", said Lyn Oliver to Jesus, his dog guide, when to wear the goggles, it distinguished itself by first. The septuagenario suffers from retinitis pigmentosa since 20 years.
As Hannah Thompson and Lyn Oliver, United Kingdom there are 360,000 registered as blind or with some visual deficiency, according to the Institute: "we estimate that about 300,000 of these people have some vision and at least half of them could benefit from these glasses. The Smart Glasses could help 150,000 people here and some 15 million worldwide". 15 million that could be a mirror for the first time.
The push from Google
The Google Impact Challenge is a contest that presents projects that make a world better, faster", as its slogan says. The Smart Glasses won the 2014 from United Kingdom. 600,000 euros to help the production and distribution of sunglasses. "Thanks to Google we will be able to build 100 pairs that we provide for free to 1,000 people in the United Kingdom and Europe," they have from the Royal National Institute for the blind of United Kingdom. With the results of those tests, they will eventually define the features and details. "It is the first test of a project like this," comment, proud, from the English institution.
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