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Autofocusing reading glasses of the future | Nitish Padmanaban
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- Опубліковано 17 чер 2020
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As you age, you gradually lose the ability to refocus your eyes -- a phenomenon as old as humanity itself -- leading to a reliance on bifocals, contacts and procedures like LASIK surgery. Electrical engineer Nitish Padmanaban offers a glimpse of cutting-edge tech that's truly a sight for sore eyes: dynamic, autofocusing lenses that track your sight and adjust to what you see, both near and far.
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Finally the T comes back into TED again.
What?
@@lux3090
TED full form: Technology Entertainment Design
What he means is that they're finally making videos about technology here.
We don't see that very often compared to other ideas
This is the fastest I’ve ever clicked on a ted vid this month
Same
Let me guess. You use glasses?
@Optical Clarity eh ma,am/sir can you please..dont use that language kids might seem this video interesting for science and they might read the comments please PLEASE dont take this offensive
@@ZNotFound I use glasses so what?
From earth's prediction..there would be flying cars in the future. Instead of driving on the road
Its true.
Hopefully, the battery in your glasses won't die while you're driving a car or something.
Good point
If they did, the glasses would just revert to fixed focus.
@@Mueller3D yup that's what I was thinking.
And it would be rare for them to get out of charge, we can charge when we sleep and if we forget, it always saves some battery to fix the focus.
We can use solar powered one for that.
Need a backup battery that switches when the other dies..or definitely need an indicator before the first reaches 15%
This sales pitch just sold me skmethung to buy in 25 years. I hope it's a manageable deadline
It certainly did suddenly seem like an ad. Very off-brand for TED. 😕
I think a few big companies are going to be interested in this stuff so with the right funding ist could come out a lot faster
How exciting! Bravo to the inventors, researchers, and developers of this hopeful, new technology!
Just when we start to wonder that we are reaching a saturation on the level of innovation, ideas like these brings a huge spectrum of hope. This is not just going to push the boundaries in the field of creativity and generation of idea but also in the fields of structural design, manufacturing, algorithms and what not!! We really need people with such drive !!
I felt like this was a sales pitch for a startup.
it might be
Where can I invest 😂
It’s TED, so I wouldn’t doubt it. They’re essentially a Silicon Valley handjob.
Ala shark tank?
Isn't that what almost all TED talks are?
Awesome this better exist when I get old & need them at least 25 years from now they should be completed I’m looking forward to it 👏
Probably won’t
Probably will
Yes. I'm 16. We will use it.
60 here. Wish I had taken better care of my eyes.
Apple or google is going to buy this stuff and then you have ist in 5 years
Hi Nitish -
This is an excellent presentation.
I am 80 years old, also an Electrical Engineer.
My range of accommodation is 1.25 Diopters.
I read a computer screen at 25 inches, with no glasses at all.
I do use a plus lens, (cost $10) for work at 13 inches.
So:
No bifocal is ever necessary for me.
For everything else?
No glasses at all.
The entire eye, is a long term control system, controling its refractive state, to its average of accommodation, from birth to maturity.
(All primate studies.)
The word, "Presbyopia", has no practical impact on me or my excellent vision.
Good for you..Youve won the genetic lottery
@@firstnamelastname1840 no , just personal objective measurements by me.
Same with confirming 20/20, on my Snellen.
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
I can see the possiblities of your device in assisting the visually impaired - especially those with limited field of vision or limited capability to use normal glasses. Do keep working on this very interesting field of work. Thanks for your efforts!
Thank you so much for talking about this argument very well. I have more idea now, why I have difficulties of reading since I was 45. Lovely watching and listening to you here on the top of the mountain of Italy.
Awesome presentation. Clear and precise.
This is probably the most expected innovation of our generation👏👏👏
Congratulations on a fine idea, Nitish! May your venture gain the backing you are hoping for and help those who are in need of this solution.
1:03 me trying to focus my own hand
I got out a ruler and put one end on my eye, holding a finger on the top to see until what distance i could focus. I'm at 12, age 29
@@glamdrag I can focus till 9cm easily, but between 9 and 6.5 my eyes start to strain and I can't go below 6.5, I'm 17.
It's not so hard to predict that, these are going to come as smart glasses, with many other features. So all the battery, electronics, cameras and software are already going to be there, and auto focus is just going to be in the "Accesibility" features in the settings.
Smart glasses are going to be dope, but they could literally ruin our lifes as well. Like imagine ads projected right into your retina at any point. They will say, you can turn it off if you want, but you didn't pay $799 for somthing you don't want to use.
Apple glasses will be announced this october.
don't worry , there will probably be hackers who can tweak the glasses to block the ads if that ever happens- like adblockers for smart glasses.
Crypto peep don’t worry there probably will be hackers who can access your footage
If a hacker has physical access to the device, it will be hacked. You can't run a system like this with just a burned ROM image like the fuel injection computer in a car, it needs software updates and memory to work with how complicated the inputs and algorithms to process the data are.
It's standalone device. so chill
One of the best presentation so far this year.
Hope to buy it in about 20 years.
Keep up the good work!
bless this man and that company. i wish them luck we could all be seeing much easier in our 60s and 70s!!!
Augmented Reality Glasses?? Apple needs to collab with this guy!
are you serious? apple? the money hungry, noncare company who dont care about the customers? are you wanna buy new glasses every half year for the same price? If something is broken they dont even exchange it...just lets you buy a new one
They are simply going to buy his company
@@rottenpoet6675 could be worse. I could have google AR goggles selling my data around... wait that sounds familiar
so they cost $999 and can't be fixed when they brake, this Apple?
sadly I were working for apple, only got depression from them
Great work Nitish. Keep up the great work and achieve more.
India is proud of you. 🇮🇳
I can clearly see why this will be a focus for many both in the near and distant future.
It like i am worried about being 12 hours in front of monitor ,now its 24/7 rest of my lives,its like a VR which you can't get out of
Collaboration and Cooperation with the University of Reading, UK could yield great results. Their work is advanced.
It's a good to see that Their is some good side of coming future also.
*there
One of the Best TED videos yet!!!!
Yes! it's very promising indeed.
Brilliant!
Every great invention comes from a need and a willingness to make that need happen, a breakthrough in this area would be nice.
Awesome! Now I can continue gaming in the dark without stressing
You might dont want to buy it now but bet that you will think again 30 years later.
I can’t wait for these.
The guy is slightly incorrect about presbyopia. If you've been nearsighted and work glasses all your life, your lenses in your eye can get locked in to close focusing. I had cataract surgery on only my right eye. I chose to have the focus set permanently for distance. My left eye is stuck on really close vision (like 5"). So, my depth perception was shot for a while. But I finally got (almost) completely used to it, partly thanks to my Nikon progressive lenses. (See my other comment.)
What a way of talking!
Love this amazing please continue your amazing work
Very interesting research. I hope this is commercialised successfully and that it helps millions of people.
Yup late 20's and I can still focus at less than 10cm, it's sharpness I seem to be loosing at extreme distances, what I'm looking at is in focus but just doesn't seem to have the information, I'm still we'll above 20/20 but I'm noticing it alright.
I volunteer. Choose me now. My vision changes constantly. If this works it would be a mirical
I required both reading glasses and long distant glasses. But being poor, I could not update these glasses to maintain sharp vision. Eventually my long distant glasses fell apart due to being so old. So now I always wore my reading glasses, and did so even when looking across far distances. This exercised my eyes. Now I only need the one pair of glasses.
I imagine a future where we all wear helmets, bose tech in the ears, auto focus lens and H.U.D.
I imagine a future where everyone is a good person, they help each other, the trees and the animals too.
Bose already abandoned the idea
Great to be enabled to see into the future, and to see how far away we are from t/here
Micro linear motors will do for the lenses, dotted at the corners of the the two split lenses for each eye, you could use the design from the butterfly key switch or something similar to lower the profile, a faster solution could be magnetically driven coils that can set a distance although vibration could be a problem. It sounds like a fun project though, I'd love to tease it out 😊
This would also be extremely useful in VR. Lack of focal depth is one of the tougher problems in that space. With this tech, you'd want to reverse the effect so that your eyes have to focus as they would in real life. You can also tweak it for those with vision problems, of course.
Yeah I was wondering when this would come along these days. Here it is. Happens to me so often. Think of something and then look it up how far along it is. I dreamed of something like the net as a kid. Now I live in it.
Forget the eye tracking. Default to infinite focus and use the distance measuring thing to switch to nearer focus if there is an object inside a sensing area. That way I still have to put the book down, but at least I don't have to take my glasses off. And I don't have to wait 5 extra years for you to get out of the prototype phase.
I’ve been watching Ted for a while now! I liked their content! As such, I made my own sci-fi/futurist channel!!
I did the same thing! XD
Interesting to see how the DSLR autofocusing technology can also be apply in glasses
I'd be fine with the bulky glasses! Could design them with fashion in mind. Some neat techwear or sci-fi looking headgear.
Right! Make em cyberpunk :D
me too. bring em on
Would be great if also can zoom in and out to see a sign or recognize a person when its far and translate if the book its in other language
Apple is going to buy this for their Apple glasses
@dil oreo I don’t think they are going to ruin it. This project is becoming the right funding
@dil oreo why do you say so? They are the perfect company to make products for most people like what they did to phones and smartphones before iPhone. The iPad. Then apple watch. They have the money, great designers, r&d facility, brand name, and large customer base for wide adoption. Other companies have been making smart glasses but they're not good.
@@Patrick10271995 "perfect company", yes, to make them cost $999 and be unfixable
I've often wondered when someone would get started on that. Nice to see it kicked off; although wondering how to keep tabs progress. Of course, maybe an alternative option might be to find a lens replacement for the eye that the muscles can deform ?
Yes that would be amazing, if we could replace the crystalline lense. It is always much nicer to not be dependent on external tools and devices.
Whatever works. But I assume the muscles are ok, it's just the stiff lens that needs replacement.
What with stem cell research we may be able to grow our own new lens before too long.
I would be happy with just having to manually switch between 2 fixed focal lengths today rather than having to carry 2 pairs of glasses. Due to other issues bifocals etc are no good for me.
Contact lense version?
I'm in my early 40s, and I recently noticed that it was getting harder to have focus on objects right up to my face. I'm near sighted, so I"m accustomed to crystal clarity at short distances, so it was disappointing to notice presbyopia (which i just learned about from this video).
This video also reminds me that for humans to compete with machines such that we don't eventually obsoletise ourselves, people will have to intergrate with machines more...eventually leading to a type of androidism. Sci-Fiction has been talking about this for decades, but it's starting to look closer & closer to reality.
As a necessary health product to improve vision, reading glasses are needed by more and more people all over the world. In the process of aging, people's eyesight gradually needs more professional glasses to meet the reading needs in daily life. So a professional reading glasses will be the choice of more and more people in the future - LUFF Glasses
Bring it!
Guys talk to Sony, they now have super fast auto focusing in their cameras e.g Sony A7s Mk 3. Sonys focusing algorithm and this idea can be merged into a solution that can be solved, plus they have the know how in electronics and miniaturisation. This can be solved in a few years (not 50 years!) to have 40+ year old people to have young vision again.
for all of you rushing to the comments, since you just saw the video uploaded recently and you can get a bunch of likes because many will see your totally original, totally funny comment. just know, likes (internet points) are completely arbitrary so dont worry if you cant think of anything funny to say. just watch and enjoy, then if you wish simply comment your thoughts for others to enjoy, have a good day.
Very cool.
I got lenses implanted in my eyes. ICL Aqua and I love it so far!
They're the ones I want.
You look pretty young. Why would you implant icls into your eyes ?
I would love having a pair of glasses with no focus problems that makes you tilt your head just to see clearly, especially when working on the ceiling fixture. It would be even better if they could figure out how to restore the original elasticity of the eyes Len's.
I feel bad seing my mom struggling with 2-3 pairs of glasses, switching between them for every different purpose. Since I already perma-use glasses, watching this video made me excited. good luck and hope this will become smaller and affordable by the time i`ll need this feature. :)
In the late 90'ies I worked in small company that had a patent covering communication between a rechargeable battery and users/chargers.
I believed that it was nonsense, - too expensive to implement.
My disregard for this patent lasted until a major US semiconductor company bought my company in 2000 and closed it, - for the sake of this patent and some other battery related patents.
If you are in the the electronic industry, you know why is was possible to implement an idea in 2000 that seemed impossible in 1996.
Thus, - never underestimate ideas that might seem impossible today.
Can’t wait for the auto focus contacts.
This video was uploaded a while ago, I remember watching it.
I was really hoping this one would be an update, not reupload
@@feedbackzaloop yeah it's a great idea
Waiting for the autofocus contact lenses. Now THAT's the ticket.
Good Talk.
Can't wait to try them out!!
„Who could push this forward?“
Apple: „Hold my Beer...“
might help with astigmatism at least that what I'd like to hope. I have trouble learning new things through reading because my eyes lose focus and I can't read. It's very sad especially because I like reading. I've missed out on a lot and eventually lost interest in learning. Well. Not completely. I can use video and anything with audio obviously. However, I miss reading. I miss the quiet and just reading.
I'd be a test subject for this hands down. I hope he's doing well and that he wins a noble prize.
I'm in my mid-30s. Part of me thinks I won't see this fully be utilized in my lifetime, but it makes me smiling thinking about a generation that will use so they can read to their heart's content. Good luck. Who knows. Tech advancements are pretty fast. Maybe I"ll get lucky.
A solution just what I, a frustrated presbyopic, dreams of. Let us hope the prototype becomes a viable reality into our hands soon. Best wishes !👍
The liquid crystal technology is definitely interesting for a wider variety of personal applications rather than just focusing
Where can I buy one?
very very cool
How exciting! Great idea 👍
Oh please hurry! Need this!!
I am not even joking but when he said that the lens cannot tell at which distance should it focus, I was like well put a distance measuring thingy or maybe an eye tracker . Obviously we need both to make it work but I am dumb I thought using one would work😅 the thought came to me because of the animation , it looked like an eye tracker
Let me offer this researcher a free suggestion. Forget rangefinders and convergence triangulation with partial mirrors. Simply turn your camera around and look at the reflection of the image projected onto the retina (Think your camera phone.) Is is Out Of Focus (OOF)? If it is OOF the microprocessor calculates whether the lens needs to focus out or in, make the correction within microseconds .. .. .. check it, focus again .. .. .. .. rinse, repeat .. .. .. as long as the eyes are open The world will be in focus wherever the person turns his gaze. Easy? No. Bur far more direct than all the indirect calculation machinery your are now using.
This is the tech we need in VR.
Great talk!
I'll be expecting this in Apple Glasses Pro. Apple glass 1 will be announced this October 2020.
Thank you ♥️
So it’s like tapping your phone to focus but with your eyes instead of your finger, not a bad look 🤓
Yes ♥️ micheal
How are you and you from...🌸
I literally got my eye exam today.lol.
Coincidence ? I think not!
.lol domain doesn't exist lol
I am looking forward to this! Just wish I saw it earlier but I could not focus on my screen
Para la presbicia yo usé unas gotas de corilio de un doctor argentino que murió durante una navegación de un barco a vela (no recuerdo su nombre). Eran fantásticas, pero su efecto solo duraba un par de horas, y al menos yo sentí que me redujo un poco la capacidad para ingrresar luz al ojo, así que las dejé de usar. Creo que no prosperó.
Till this comes out, if you need progressive lenses, I HIGHLY recommend going with the Nikon "formulation." I suffered through crappy progressive lenses, with only a very narrow useable width in the bottom half of the lens for decades. When I got my current pair of glasses, the optician offered more than one choice for what she called the "formulation" of the progressive lenses. Basically, that means "the math they use to calculate the shape of the lenses. I was $300 more but OMG is it worth it! It is almost like not needing glasses any more. I just look at something and it is in focus. The angle I naturally hold my head is already the perfect angle to see through the correct part of the lenses. And I can see perfectly all the way from one side to another! Almost every day I am thankful I spent that extra $300. Money, I could barely afford to pay at the time, by the way.
Now, I also have a pair of non-progressive glasses for when I work on the computer or in my car. So, the Nikon lenses aren't completely magical. But pretty damned close.
Is that what other people call the 'neurallens'. Where they do a comprehensive eye exam and get the focus level from all 180 degrees correct?
@@spextrekid9410 Nope. The optometrist just did a regular exam and gave a regular bi-focal prescription. Then the optician just simply passed me if I wanted to pay extra for the Nikon "formulation." The Nikon formulation is really almost just the same as progressive lenses, they just have better math for how to make those progressive lenses better. But there was no extra super special examination involved.
Why do they need a distance sensor? Can't they calculate the distance from the crossing point of the gaze direction of each eye from the eye tracker?
redundancy
Daddy needs to recharge his glasses before he can lego
This deserves the "yeah science" breaking bad gif.
I don't care if it's a sales pitch ,I want these glasses mine suck..great, innovative work you guys
Hurry up and develop these glasses I need them now 😊😊😊😎😎
I had a idea for auto focus lenses, I wasn't sure if it existed. Know I see this, every idea is already thought of. I am still goibg to make mine, i want to see it work
Sept 2022 still waiting
Holly Molly of a Jolly, this is Great!
So when is Ted gonna show up just asking?
how did he manage not to step anywhere and just stand there in that one spot the entire time-
Simpler solution:
dont strain your eyes.
eat a good, vitamin rich diet.
use better screens on devices.
take care of your health!
just delaying an inevitable event
geness
As someone who is a "Presbyope" this gives me hope!
Innovative.