Comments on: Adjustable Glasses

By: Carol Trimberger

Carol Trimberger — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 21:02:59 +0000

How can I donate or help with this cause?

By: Carol Trimberger

Carol Trimberger — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 21:02:11 +0000

Where and how can I donate to this cause? How can I help him?

By: Carol Trimberger

Carol Trimberger — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 21:01:29 +0000

Where can I donate to this cause. How can I helop him?

By: Thebes

Thebes — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 01:23:49 +0000

Wonderful idea. If I could buy a pair I would, just so I always have spare glasses around for anyone who might need them. I'd pay more than $1 too!

By: liphttam1

liphttam1 — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 06:26:46 +0000

Just dont froget to add stuff to clean them. They might be used in dustu dirty lands.

By: Christophe

Christophe — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 03:50:03 +0000

$1? it's a month salary!

just kidding : great idea.

By: Dan Smith

Dan Smith — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:18:36 +0000

i want those

i'm going to the optromologist tomorrow

i hate going there

By: Anon

Anon — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:01:02 +0000

"Silver hopes to get the cost of manufacturing each pair down to a dollar each."

Cost to make: $1.00
Cost when they go mainstream: $100.00+

In otherwords, why wouldn't this catch on in areas not poverty stricken? My eyes change all the time and going to get new perscriptions is costly and inconvienient. I'd be just fine with having contact lenses that are always up-to-date perscription wise, and having a pair of eyeglasses such as these for when I'm at home on the computer.

By: Gauldar

Gauldar — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:33:19 +0000

Edward,

Sadly, 80 percent of the world's blind were needlessly without sight. Through SightFirst, Lions have prevented blindness by supporting cataract surgeries, helping to build or expand eye hospitals and clinics, distributing sight-saving medication and training eye care professionals

While all those services are a boon to those who are not fortunate enough to have them, people still need corrective lenses. Cataracts are a large part of the problem, especialy in areas where malnurishment is an issue, but surgery & medicine can only do so much.

By: Edward

Edward — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:13:41 +0000

Without getting into why a billion people could not benefit from these glasses and how there are cheaper ways to provide glasses to the masses, let me say that large problems are frequently solved by good ideas rather than good devices. I hope this helps.

Here is a link to The Lions' website. Once you go there, you will understand why I posted it.

http://www.lionsclubs.org/EN/content/about_index.shtml

By: shawnisboring

shawnisboring — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:08:34 +0000

This is wonderful

By: Nooberry

Nooberry — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:20:14 +0000

I want them. That Zulu gent looks quite steampunkriffic.
Oh and it would be good for the world's poor for an affordable set of specs too.

By: Vim

Vim — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:11:17 +0000

great news indeed!

By: Ajan

Ajan — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:52:30 +0000

nice one!

By: Gauldar

Gauldar — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:41:56 +0000

It's been known for a while that water works like a lens, and it’s great that it's finally being utilized. I do find it unfortunate that a single person and 20 years of work is needed to help enable thousands of people in under-developed countries, while money is being blown on predictable marketing focused research & development.

By: Graystone2000

Graystone2000 — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:35:01 +0000

Those will easily sell at a profit if sold to local entrepreneurs. This doesn't have to be a humanitarian giveaway. People don't need hand outs, they need opportunities to bring products to market like this that are affordable. The tailor in the article clearly would have bought a pair to earn his living. See Paul Polaks book 'Out of Poverty' if you need more proof.

By: TwoDragons

TwoDragons — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:10:34 +0000

That is freaking COOL! And it's so good to see that the technology is being distributed in such a humanitarian way. Give that man a Nobel Prize!

--TwoDragons

By: Nicholas Dollak

Nicholas Dollak — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:06:12 +0000

Clever! I believe that the "oil lenses" in binoculars mentioned (briefly) in Frank Herbert's "Dune" were meant to work in a similar fashion --- perhaps the technology already existed in some form. But to bring it down to eyeglass-size at a reasonable cost is the real trick. Will they come with a second set of dials to adjust for astygmatism?

By: Ashley

Ashley — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:24:46 +0000

Genius. Getting the cost down will be hard, and even at a dollar each, he's going to need some serious humanitarian support to get a billion dollars' worth. But if he's been plugging away at this project for 20 years, I have faith that he'll make it happen.