Glasses help color-blind see trees of green, red roses, too (SF Gate)
By Stephanie M. Lee
Updated 11:23 am, Thursday, January 1, 2015
Decorating the house has always been challenging for Sheila Carter. Like other color-blind people, she limits her wardrobe to a few bold hues that can be easily mixed and matched, like blue and black.
But a new pair of glasses she recently started wearing, she said, has changed her worldview.
“Sunsets are amazing,” said Carter, 60, a group trip coordinator in Georgetown, Texas. “I always knew you could see the gold ball of the sun. I didn’t know gold streaks ran out horizontally from the sun. I didn’t realize the whole landscape took on a different hue.”
Carter owns high-tech eyewear made by EnChroma, a Berkeley startup that wants to help people with color deficiency see the full spectrum of the rainbow.
EnChroma says that unlike conventionally tinted lenses that can only enhance one color, its smart glasses enhance the three primary colors simultaneously. This technology grew out of research initially funded by the National Institutes of Health.
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more: http://www.sfgate.com/health/article/Glasses-help-color-blind-see-trees-of-green-red-5988145.php
There goes that nasty ol' Nanny Gubmint, making life better for people again !
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