New Eyeglasses that enables color blinded see the world
Ever wondered about, what's the reason behind the iconic blue color of Facebook? It’s because of The CEO, Mark Zuckerburg has red-green color blindness. It also has to be noticed that one in 12 men and one in 200 women suffer from any of the color blindness. The most common issue of color blindness is failing to distinguish between red and green colors. Don McPherson of EnChroma accidentally found that- by making the glasses to absorb different wavelengths, people with color blinds can see the world as it is. They got this project granted from National Institute of Health and after many trails, this was started in 2010. When a normal person looks at a rainbow, he can see the whole swath of visible colors- from violet to red. However, we cannot pick the lights from all wavelengths and differentiate them. Our eyes won’t work as such unique detectors to distinguish the colors. So, our retina makes three types of color sensitive cells, generally cal...