When she was 7 years old, Yvonne Felix was diagnosed with Stargardt disease, a common form of inherited juvenile macular degeneration that brings on progressive vision loss. She struggled to see ...
Gentex plans to utilize its expertise in digital vision, software development and industrial design to help eSight develop the next generation of mobile electronic eyewear, with a focus on reducing ...
Gentex's eSight Go eSight eyewear combines a high-definition camera, proprietary algorithms, and powerful processing platform to relay and magnify real-time imagery onto two high-resolution screens ...
TORONTO - Emma-Rose Gibson can see clearly no more than three centimetres in front of her, but a new device is allowing the nine-year-old Ottawa girl to watch TV. The legally blind Grade 4 student, ...
WEST ALLIS -- Imagine going through life -- barely able to see. Now, picture a new device that would allow you to finally view the world around you. That's what happened for a woman in West Allis on ...
A company that makes a high-tech medical device to help the visually impaired see is working with blind and low-vision veterans to help them regain independence. About 130,000 US veterans are legally ...
CHICAGO (WLS) -- A new non-surgical device is giving some people a whole new view of the world: it's called eSight, and people who have tried them say they really work. For 21-year-old Jacob Leopold, ...
“I’ve never seen anything that impacts the individual and their caregivers around them the way this does. It’s amazing,” eSight’s head of marketing Roland Mattern told me during a video chat at CES ...
Jaclyn Pope of Oshawa, Ontario, received eSight eyewear through a scholarship program in 2021. (eSight) New eyewear fitted with a camera that can help low-vision people see — known as eSight devices — ...
Jeff Regan was born with underdeveloped optic nerves and had spent most of his life in a blur. Then four years ago, he donned an unwieldy headset made by a Toronto company called eSight. Suddenly, ...
DALLAS -- What was once just a blur is now clear for the first time. It's called eSight. It won't work for people who are completely blind, but for those who have low vision it can provide a life- ...
Special glasses help Kathy Beitz, who has been legally blind since she was 11. — -- Kathy Beitz has been legally blind since she was 11 years old, but she got to see her newborn on the day he was ...