Adaptive Optics in the Developing World

The lack of eye care in the developing world has long been a problem. People in need of corrective lenses struggle with reaching their economic potential, thus hindering their quality of life. Now Professor Joshua Silver, atomic physicist and professor of physics at the University of Oxford, has developed a simple and inexpensive solution: adaptive lens eyeglasses. The lenses of his glasses are are two layers of plastic filled with fluid, and the user simple adjusts and sets the amount of fluid in lenses themselves in a process called self-refraction. His goal is to help the millions of people lacking access to an optometrist, with a goal of helping a billion people through vision correction. For more information, please see the Centre for Vision in the Developing World.