THINK you’ve got perfect vision? Think again. Pablo Artal reckons he can
double the sharpness of anybody’s vision, no matter how good it is to start
with. He revealed his “smart spectacles” technology at a conference on adaptive
optics in Murcia, Spain, last week.
Few people would choose to wear Artal’s prototype, as the computer hardware
it relies on takes up a full square metre of desk space. “But the key optical
component is very small and cheap,” says Artal, a researcher in the optics
laboratory at the University of Murcia.
Conventional spectacles correct for poor focusing and astigmatism in…
