By Antonio Regalado, Technology Review
Eye app: A smartphone displays a measurement of the refractive error of a person’s eyes. Vitor Pamplona isn’t a doctor. He’s not even an optician. He can’t write you a prescription for glasses, or sell you a pair. Still, he’s pretty sure he’s going to disrupt the $75 billion global eye-care market. At EyeNetra, the startup he cofounded, goofy curiosities like plastic eyeballs line the shelves, and a 3-D printing machine whirs in the background. It’s printing out prototypes of a device that will attach to your smartphone and, in a minute or two, tell you what kind of eyeglasses you need.
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/518891/when-smartphones-do-a-doctors-job/
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