I had this cool idea of applying a distortion or blur over the top of your monitor so that it corrects for astigmatism. It would mean you could sit and look at your screen all day without needing to use glasses, and without getting tired eyes.
The thing with astigmatism is that you have different focal lengths for vertical vs horizontal lines. Text is made up of both vertical and horizontal lines so your eyes continually refocusing (when I was younger my eyes could do it for a long time before getting exhausted so I didn't know I had it until I got older and started getting blurry vision after reading for half hour). It would be so cool to turn on an app and take off your glasses. :) On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 2:42 PM, mike smith <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12 May 2010 15:04, Arjang Assadi <[email protected]> wrote: > > Got eye exam, got reading gleasses, But when there is zoom do we need > gleasses? > > > > If we can change the size of what we read do we really need to use > > reading glasses (and keep the font the same size)? It just doesn't > > make sense , guess this is a question for Dr Carl! > > Glasses don't just fix magnification, they fix things like astigmatism > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astigmatism_(eye) > > And probably other stuff - that's a lot of what my long distance > glasses are fixing though. > > > > > I know it is not Friday > > It must be Thursday, I never could get the hang of Thursdays. > > > > > > Regards > > > > Arjang > > > > > > -- > Meski > > "Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. Sure, > you'll get it, but it's going to be rough" - Adam Hills >
