Indian professor devises method to use cellphone for eye tests


A team led by an Indian-origin professor has devised a method of using mobile phones for conducting eye tests, a technique it hopes will be useful in places lacking hi-tech eye equipment.

The device, called NETRA, which means eye in Hindi, has been designed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab Associate Professor Ramesh Raskar, visiting Professor Manuel Oliveira, student Vitor Pamplona and postdoctoral research associate Ankit Mohan.

The two-minute eye test can be carried out using a small plastic device clipped in front of a cellphone's screen.

The patient looks into a small lens, presses the phone's arrow keys until sets of parallel green and red lines just overlap. The process is repeated eight times with the lines at different angles for each eye.............Click for more

 

 

Source Web Page: Economic Times


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