Glasses for color blind people

Neurobiologist Mark Changizi and Tim Barber of the 2AI lab in Boston, USA have created special glasses that can help people with red-and-blue blindness recognize these two colors.

Oxy-Iso Glasses - (Photo: news.com.au)

Changizi believes that the ability to recognize human colors can be found in other mammals and that this ability allows humans to judge colors that reflect emotion in the skin such as red or pale or Showing different health issues.

The oxygen-Iso glass is designed to isolate and amplify some of the red pigmented images to help health workers detect minor lesions such as bruises or small veins that the naked eye is difficult to see. see. However, when Changizi and his associates Barber introduced glasses to research institutes around the world, they found that Oxy-Iso glasses could help some blind red-green people recognize color.

Currently, these two professionals are working in New York to improve the eyeglasses to help people with color blindness participate in traffic safer.