Josh Silver demos adjustable liquid-filled eyeglasses

http://www.ted.com Josh Silver delivers his brilliantly simple solution for correcting vision at the lowest cost possible -- adjustable, liquid-filled lenses. At TEDGlobal 2009, he demos his affordable eyeglasses and reveals his global plan to distribute them to a billion people in need by 2020.

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[MennoKnight1]

I have personally bought a few hundred of these and they are going to be handed out in Gautamala in February of 2010 to the poor.

[mclarry76]

Classic example of psudo-science. Replace 'black male' with 'jews or gypsies' and you have the makings of ignorance to the Nth degree. Think like a scientist, find facts that might disprove your hypothesis. India's IQ has increased dramatically over the past 50 years, can you attribute this to evolution? Blacks in Japan have much higher IQs than that of their U.S. cousins, are their prefrontal cortex's more developed? Absurd. You shouldn't have an answer looking for a question. Think & research

[Way2Spirited]

@burn70u7 Yes and I so agree and not to stand up for rolex in anyway but I feel it's only fair to point out that I think Josh Silver was a winner for one of rolex's Awards for Enterprise which gives out funding and grants for people who come up with ideas to help people around the world, in various categories such as cultural preservation, health and medicine and environmental protection. I know what you're saying though and what they give back is just a drop compared to whats been done to EARTH

[instereovideos]

@lemansbmwracer Well, I'm sure we all appreciate the heads up... but I'm gonna doubt that what you're saying is true. It isn't that I have any facts or know better personally... but if I had to choose between the word of someone who was invited to TED, and someone who writes in ALL CAPS LIKE AN IDIOT and says things like "I HOPE HE GETS JUMPED," I'm gonna go with the former until I hear something similar from someone respectable. Thanks though, really.

[instereovideos]

If these ever catch on in developed countries, optometrists are gonna get pissed.

[MennoKnight1]

These glasses are intended for people with no access to eye doctors. Much of the developing world cannot get eye glasses because there is nobody to make their prescription. These do that for them.

Silver is NOT marketing them for the developed world and he is selling them at a loss of profit. He is no fraud. He is the real thing.

[plbulla]

dont forget the most popular; Adolf H.

[plbulla]

*stronger.... Also, the lens would probably need to be filled to begin with, and gradually deflated so that the center would lose thickness and the two bound sides would remain as thick, creating the cylinder

[plbulla]

The majority of spec wearers run between +6 and -6, regardless of cyl just to correct 6 dp sphere would mean the world entire to a person who could hardly function otherwise... Leaving the more complicated corrections to the optical professionals, greatly lessening the burden of a developing society. Besides, it's not too far a stretch to add another fluid lens in a slot on the rear that are bound at two sides to produce a progressively stringer cylinder when filled, on a rotatable dial for axis

[darrenfiy]

very true :)

[lemansbmwracer]

DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS MAN. HE IS A FOOL AND A BRITISH FRAUD. FIRST OF ALL THESE GLASSES DO NOT COVER AXIS, OR CYLINDER. SECOND A OPTOMITRIST KNOWS EXACTLY WHAT YOU NEED, YOU WOULD REALLY RUIN YOU EYES BY WEARING THE WRONG PRESCRIPTION. THERE ARE MANY VARIABLES INVOLVED IN GLASSES. i HOPE THIS GUY GET'S JUMPED.