Every day, visually impaired people eat, run errands, get around the city, and do everything else their non-impaired counterparts do. While many moder...
Technology can be strange sometimes: everyone seems to know about the incredible advances that have been made to cellphones, computers, cars, and tele...
Retinal tests and eye scans have advanced tremendously in the last 30 years, but a new research project being jointly performed by Google and the UK&r...
Colour blindness, or colour vision deficiency, is a hereditary condition that affects 1 in 12 men and roughly 1 in 200 women worldwide. Although a few...
Eye-tracking technology itself is not all that new. It is used in retail settings, and in athletic training; your favorite website may use eye-trackin...
Three dimensional technology is an exciting way to watch a movie, but it can have another surprising and beneficial side effect – diagnosing vis...
It's hard to imagine anything more frightening than losing one of your major senses. And yet some of our most celebrated artists have turned their...
Can data help more guide dogs get matched with people who need them? That’s what Jane Russenberger of Guiding Eyes for the Blind is banking on,...
Virtual Reality technology is poised to breakthrough in a big way in 2016, with companies including Facebook, Samsung, Sony and Google all developing...
It’s remarkable to live in a day and age where we get a chance to witness a miracle in motion. This is one of those times. Four-month-old Leo Reppon...
With summer just around the corner, movie theatres will be packed with movies featuring superheroes with a wide variety of powers including superhuman...
You might remember being a kid and seeing ads in the back of comic books and cereal boxes offering "x-ray glasses" for only $1 dollar that w...
Recently there's been a surge in popularity of apps and paid online services offering complete eye exams using nothing more than your computer, ta...
You might not know it, but there's a whole spectrum of colours floating around us that our eyes simply can't see. That's because our eyes...
"Sunset from Steptoe Butte" by visually impaired photographer Mark Nicol The famous photographer Dorothea Lange once wrote that “th...