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Re:Myopia treatment 'smart glasses' from Japan to be sold in... by jhallenworld on Friday January 28, 2022 @01:39AM (#30111390)
Just wait until you're older.. my dream is for presbyopia to be fixed. Presbyopia is essentially when your eyes can no longer auto-focus, it's incredibly annoying. I think some Israeli company was supposedly working on auto-focus glasses for this... good idea, since the market is basically everyone. But it looks like they stopped.

https://eye-see-mag.com/en/high-tech/autofocus-lenses-for-pr...

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Re:Myopia treatment 'smart glasses' from Japan to be sold in... by Tade0 on Friday January 28, 2022 @02:16AM (#30111592)
I've been following the development of eye drops which promise to reach the lens and make it flexible again:

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04806503

That would be really something.

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Re:Myopia treatment 'smart glasses' from Japan to be sold in... by algo646464 on Friday January 28, 2022 @04:04AM (#30112324)
Silly Question: It it a good experiment to put the medicine in one eye and the placebo in the other eye? What could be other consequences of such a thing?
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Re:Myopia treatment 'smart glasses' from Japan to be sold in... by beebeepka on Friday January 28, 2022 @02:45AM (#30111776)
Should we invest in the company that makes them. What an amazing development
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Re:Myopia treatment 'smart glasses' from Japan to be sold in... by Tade0 on Friday January 28, 2022 @03:45AM (#30112199)
Novartis acquihired them very early on and now is performing clinical trials.

Results from the most recent completed study are encouraging:

https://www.healio.com/news/optometry/20201012/further-study...

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Re:Myopia treatment 'smart glasses' from Japan to be sold in... by jamiek88 on Friday January 28, 2022 @02:33AM (#30111700)
Wow it really would be!
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Re:Myopia treatment 'smart glasses' from Japan to be sold in... by walterbell on Friday January 28, 2022 @03:22AM (#30112046)
Vision therapy for both presbyopia and myopia relies partly on neuroplasticity: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16194580

There is a sizable incumbent revenue stream from expensive progressive lenses for those with presbyopia, which may or may not influence investment in alternative solutions.

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