| Description: | Like death and taxes, reading glasses can seem almost inevitable -- perhaps until now.
A new app called GlassesOff claims to be able to improve your vision, eliminating the need for reading glasses for sufferers of the near universal condition called presbyopia (from the Greek for aging eyes). The condition hits nearly everyone -- an estimated 1.2 billion sufferers are predicted by 2020, according to one study.
The GlassesOff app also claims it may even give you "super-vision" beyond the 20/20 standard your optometrist shoots for.
“Super-vision is a side effect,†said Nimrod Madar, president and CEO of the Israeli app-maker.
'Super-vision is a side effect.'
- Nimrod Madar, president and CEO of GlassesOff
It sounds impossible -- yet it’s real, and based on a very simple yet groundbreaking discovery, Madar explained. “Vision actually happens in the brain,†he told FoxNews.com.
Eyes may be windows to the soul, but like a window, they’re simply panes of glass. You don’t s |