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Today's world has been drawn to strain our sight 15 September, 2015 - Comments (0)

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Even not knowing it, nowadays, in 21st century ,most of things we do every day is really compromising our vision in a way that is worse than we can imagine!

And, it's worth saying, - when our vision is compromised,can bring to chronic pain, injuries,and to accelerate the aging process of our body!

The most obvious and bad practice is, without any doubt, our modern and daily office work.

If we sit down in front of a computer for 8-10 hours per day , we are putting our sight in an outright "visual cage". We stare at the display every day, from the same distance for the whole day and it is the same " box" that we lookt at , day by day.

Without saying more, let's imagine of going through a tunnel every day, from our eyes to the display.

In every sphere and circumstance concerning our health in general, it would be good to be equipped with adequate tools and new habits to cope with every change or evolution that our body is forced to bear.

And, it is why we do not ensure to our eyes the " training" they need ... we starve daily our every from peripherical vision, in different colors and depth.

In fact, the only time we look at distance ,paradoxically is when we are on our way back home !

But, it gets worse ...

When we come back home, what do we look at ? flat screen tv ? iPhone or iPad? Or TV in our bedroom before sleeping?

Overall, our field of vision in modern life is forced and installed in many and various 2 visual boxes"

Finally,we are not using completely our eyes, from peripheral range, to perception of depth until color contrast, in substance, all these skills begin to atrophy, it is time to get up and begin to take the rigth precautions.

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Here it comes an app for blind people 12 September, 2015 - Comments (0)

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Developed at Singularity University by the Italian 22 years old Alberto Rizzoli and by Marita Cheng, 26 years Aipoly is an app dedicated to blind people.

What is Aipoly

It is a personal smart assistant Ethat allows blind people or visually impaired to know what is around them, through simple photos and an excessive audio output . After the snapshot, the image is charged on the app server and is tagged and studied. Then, the result is given to the user as text or audio.

Therefore Aipoly, allows people with visual deseases to reconstruct imagesa lot more detailed and faithful to reality

To whom is addressed Aipoly? To 285 million of blind people and visually impaired in the world, that, in short times, can come back to " see" the world around them and have again a movement authonomy.

"We thought that, creating an algorithm capable of drawing the images of what is around them " explains Alberto" the user would have at his disposal an innovative and effective guide . Each user would recognize if there are obstacles alonlg the street ( statues, bushes, fences, trees or other impediment on the way) becoming more independent.In this way he would not have to count necessarily on other people. "

Waiting for official tests ,Alberto e Marita involved more than one hundred blind people in developping of their project. and, thanks to their positive sensations,the app reached an high dvelopping level " but, as all innovations in this sector, it will take a lot of tieme to reach more important goals".

Illustrative video to this link: https://goo.gl/LdsIW8

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Prevention is beter than a cure

Prevention is better than a cure 10 September, 2015 - Comments (1)

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Sight is a supreme necessity.A rooted concept, but it's a well habit to be repeated.

The thing we often ignore, is that there are many phases in our eyes' life that request all our attention just because we usually give them an inadequate importance.

In the age from three to twenty years it is always suitable to recommend repeated visual check -ups because we are in a period in which eyes compromising is high and the most common visual defects can increase . As, for example, short-sightening.

Short-sightening, as the most common visual defects , as astigmatism and farsightedness, oblige to wear glasses or contact lenses.

Furthermore,the third decade of life ( sometimes also before) is characterized by starting of keratoconus. Kerathoconus is a pathology that affects every year 50 people on 100.000 and it is a desease linked to a structural weakness of cornea that progressivley tends to tire out slowly, assuming the shape of a cone.

In this case therapy foresees the use of special glasses, named aberrometric, and particular kind of contact lenses.

Until some time ago, the alternative in some difficult cases was cornea transplant , today we have the possibility of supplying a laser therapy, called cross linking that allows to reinforce the cornea structure.

So, it is fundamental to make eye visit if vision becomes out of focus , if we have difficulties in seeing far or near and if symptoms like burning sensation , or of foreign body , or excessive tearing appear. Check-ups will become yearly if in presence of clear visual athologies or defects , every two/ three years in absence of symptoms.

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