APM Terminals Inland Services Kenya has partnered with non-profit group TwoBillionEyes Foundation to offer free eye tests and corrective glasses for truck drivers. The partnership not only improves safety for all concerned, but also creates new employment opportunities.
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This time last year, Shivang Dave and his colleague Aaron Chang were sitting at a table in the District Architecture Center in downtown Washington, D.C., patiently taking questions as they watched a rotating group of engineers, industrial designers, manufacturing and supply chain experts, and journalists tinker… Conitnue Reading
Last Friday, April 13th, Carlos S. Hernández (Director of Engineering at PlenOptika Inc.) was invited to the third edition of biomedical engineering job fair “III JEIB” organised by CEEIBIS at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. In the event, he talked about his experience after finishing his university degree in Biomedical Engineering, the future of their professional career and providing useful information for freshly graduated biomedical engineers.
The patent awarded protects the SimVis technology and was highly valued by the jury for its quality and market impact.
e-See is high caliber autorefractor designed and developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology spin-out, PlenOptika, Inc. (USA)
e-See offers ease of use and accuracy for ophthalmologists and optometrists with its innovative PlenOptika wavefront Refractive Engine (WRE) technology which ensure that the testing process is dynamic, smart and intuitive.
PlenOptika WRE technology produces exceptional results, In fact it offers the closest results to subjective refraction as compared to conventional autorefractors. Having the nearest starting point to subjective refraction ensures fewer changes in the trial frame lenses, resulting in time saved.
Product innovation continues to advance healthcare systems across the globe with nominee PlenOptika’s Quicksee, a portable eye test that anyone can use, improving eye health in developing countries, and SurgiBox an inflatable tent that operates as a sterile operating theatre in remote areas. More speculative creations include designers Liz Ciokajlo and Maurizio Montalti’s Growing a MarsBoot, transforming human sweat into a boot suitable for life on Mars.
The New York Times publish an article about the global need for eyeglasses. It speaks about the work of our collaborators Aravind Eye Care System and Eyelliance among others. Read this interesting article here.
Aurolab, a non-for profit company which is among the largest manufacturers of ophthalmic products in Asia, launches the e-see Autorefractor at AIOS 2018
Dr. Lage’s new lab at UAM engineering school was presented to the attendees of this event.
Portable device can generate corrective lens prescriptions in areas with no optometry care.
