While there already are glasses that help compensate for red-green color blindness, the lenses often can't be shaped to users' prescriptions. That's why scientists are now developing a new type of ...

Contact lenses may be useful for restoring vision to people who are short- or long-sighted, but they're less useful at correcting color blindness. Now researchers from the University of Birmingham ...

Imagine seeing the world in muted shades -- gray sky, gray grass. Some people with color blindness see everything this way, though most can't see specific colors. Tinted glasses can help, but they can ...

Wearable technology is changing everything for color-blind patients. "I have red/green color blindness, and reds and greens look more brown and tan to me. It makes it hard to see," says Tyler Gore,.

Color-blindness, also known as color vision deficiency or CVD, affects approximately 1 in 12 men and 1 in 200 women around the world. It’s an incurable, inherited condition that makes it difficult to ...

Researchers have developed a contact lens that may help people with color blindness simply by using a low cost dye. Researchers at the University of Birmingham have developed a contact lens that may ...

(Nanowerk News) Researchers have incorporated ultra-thin optical devices known as metasurfaces into off-the-shelf contact lenses to correct deuteranomaly, a form of red-green color blindness. The new ...

A group at Tel Aviv University has incorporated metasurface elements into the surface of conventional contact lenses, offering a potential route to combating a particular form of color blindness. The ...

A mural adjacent to Fulton Elementary School on West Orange Street, left, seemed a good spot for five local people who have color-deficient vision to try a pair of EnChroma glasses. The special lenses ...

Imagine seeing the world in muted shades -- gray sky, gray grass. Some people with color blindness see everything this way, though most can't see specific colors. Tinted glasses can help, but they can ...

WASHINGTON -- Researchers have incorporated ultra-thin optical devices known as metasurfaces into off-the-shelf contact lenses to correct deuteranomaly, a form of red-green color blindness. The new ...