Wired News: Super Vision Sans Bionics

On the other end of the scale, another person goes blind every second in China due to cataracts...the things that make you say hmmm...

Wired News: Super Vision Sans Bionics: "Before he became an inventor and businessman, Ron Blum was a practicing opthalmologist. About twice a year, he would encounter a patient whose eyesight was better than 20/20. Such cases of super vision were a phenomenon that Blum and the science of opthalmology couldn't explain.

'I would just say to the person: Consider yourself blessed,' says Blum. 'I never would have believed that I would be running a company 20 years later that was developing a product that could give supervision to anyone.'

That company, PixelOptics of Roanoke, Virginia, just won a $3.5 million Department of Defense grant to refine its 'supervision' technology, which Blum claims could double the quality of a person's eyesight. 'Theoretically, this should be able to double the distance that a person can see clearly,' he says.

At the heart of PixelOptics' technology are tiny, electronically-controlled pixels embedded within a traditional eyeglass lens. Technicians scan the eyeball with an aberrometer -- a device that measures aberrations that can impede vision -- and then the pixels are programmed to correct the irregularities"