The spectacles, already being developed for a mass
market by the Royal National Institute of Blind People, won a public
vote in the Google Impact Challenge Awards, joining another three
winners receiving funding of £500,000 each.
The
award will allow the charity to give a prototype of its smart glasses to
1,000 people to test for the next 18 months, with the aim of making a
finished product available by 2016. It is estimated 150,000 people in
the UK and about 15 million worldwide will benefit from the spectacles
which echo the sci-fi Visor of Star Trek character Geordi LaForge,
played by actor Levar Burton.
In his fictional case his vision came via implants into the optic nerve which delivered imagesread more
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