Digital spectacles that shoot video and display the images in front of the eyes are helping the partially sighted to see better.
The £6,000 Oxsight Prism glasses are designed for those with reduced peripheral vision caused by diabetes and glaucoma.
Tiny video cameras in the frame send pictures to transparent screens floating in front of the user’s eyes, projecting the images into the field of vision, giving patients a widescreen view.
The £6,000 Oxsight Prism glasses (pictured) are designed for those with reduced peripheral vision caused by diabetes and glaucoma
Tiny video cameras in the frame (pictured) send pictures to transparent screens floating in front of the user’s eyes, projecting the images into the field of vision, giving patients a widescreen view
‘It could be the difference between seeing just a nose rather than a face, or a group of people rather than just one,’ says Stephen Hicks, lecturer in neuroscience and visual prosthetics at Oxford University, who developed the glasses.
oxsight.co.uk'Love bugs' help couples live longer
There really is such a thing as a love bug, scientists say.
New research suggests happily married couples live longer lives and suffer less illness because they have very similar bacteria in their digestive tracts.
Gut bacteria – also called the gut microbiome – is essential for health, and humans typically have at least 1,000 species of bacteria living in their system, made up of trillions of different cells.
New research suggests happily married couples (file image) live longer lives and suffer less illness
They help to regulate the immune system and protect against harmful bacteria that enter the body.
But the make-up of this microbiome varies from one person to the next. A study by experts at Wisconsin University in the US, published in Scientific Reports, looked at 408 men and women and showed couples tend to have more similar gut profiles than siblings or strangers, probably because they transfer organisms to each other by close contact.
And the longer they had been together, the greater the similarity.
Intriguingly, the effects were even greater than that of genes or the environment.
