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Can you make a screen adjust for those who are short-sighted?

It would be great not to have to put on glasses to view the TV, so is it possible to adjust the screen to do this? Readers respond

27 November 2019

I wear spectacles to correct for myopia and astigmatism. Is it possible to create a program to adjust the image of a TV, mobile or PC monitor using my optical prescription such that I could view it without spectacles?

Dan O’Donovan Solihull, West Midlands, UK

The eye uses a lens to focus light on the retina at its back. It needs to do this because the iris is a circle rather than a tiny hole, so a circle of light enters the eye.

All of the light from each point on, say, a computer screen reaches the lens and is…

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