Cctv Low Vision Aids

Optical Aids to Help You Cope with Low Vision

Low vision aids come in all shapes and sizes and serve a multitude of different purposes. A one-size-fits-all approach just won’t do when it comes to choosing these devices, especially when you consider that a very wide range of eye problems can cause low vision.

Age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma, cataracts, head trauma and stroke can all result in reduced visual acuity, reduced contrast sensitivity and glare sensitivity. It should be remembered that these eye conditions often involve impaired color vision, and that the majority of sufferers are over 60.

This is why many of the more high-tech low vision aids now coming on to the market offer customised viewing nodes (magnifiers, for example, which allow material to be viewed in black and white, blue and yellow or black and yellow) or adjustable image brightness.

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News

HEALTH CARE AND VISION CORRECTION

The Cypress Times - Mar 25, 2010

Even so, many low vision devices can make reading easier and more rewarding for people with macular degeneration, retinitis pigmentosa, tunnel vision, and more »

Assistive Technologies Enable Discovery

ScienceCareers.org - Apr 02, 2010

Summers-Gates has had very low vision since birth and also has multiple sclerosis, repetitive stress injuries, and other medical problems.

The Chicago Lighthouse Will Host Low Vision Products Show in Schaumburg,

PR-CANADA.net (press release) - Mar 13, 2010

Hosted by The Chicago Lighthouse, the low vision products show is scheduled for Saturday, March 13, at the Friendship Village - 350 W. Schaumburg Road in

With the Tory lead slipping, the nasty party is back in town – panicking

Telegraph.co.uk (blog) - Mar 31, 2010

And so the “nasty party” is back in town, an admission that the Tories have nothing to say, no vision for the future, nothing behind the glossy (if rubbish) and more »

We need a credible policy on immigration

Telegraph.co.uk - Apr 01, 2010

To be fair, the police have been as good as they can be in the circumstances, setting up CCTV outside one of the lout's houses, but their hands are tied. and more »

Drunk skippers Matthew Reynolds and Percy Small guilty in Sydney Harbour crash

PerthNow - Apr 06, 2010

Source: news.com.au This haunting CCTV vision shows 14 people boarding a boat for a night on the harbour which ended in the death of six people in 2008. and more »

BRS Labs launches Value Added Reseller Program

eChannelLine - Mar 25, 2010

Behavioral Analytics technology, the backbone of the AISight system, combines computer vision with machine learning to provide actionable intelligence