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Cheap Fast Eyeglasses from a Desktop Fabricator

Posted by michael on from the blind-as-a-bat dept.

purduephotog writes "Doctoral candidate Saul Griffith of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and inventor of the Lego powered chocolate printer was awarded the Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for inventing a device that molds eyeglasses rapidly and cheaply. Best of all, he's motivated for the good of humanity."

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  1. Myopia research by adept256 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Griffith has created a prototype device to test the human eye.

    I have a scientist friend who's currently researching myopia. I must tell him about this! I'm not too familiar with the nature of his research, but I do know that he's harvested roughly 3000 chicken eyes while gathering data... not sure what he does with them... sorry ;)

    The article is pretty vague about the workings and capabilities of this prototype. Does anyone have more information on this?

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