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Offline Askold

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Glasses that fix colour blindness
« on: March 21, 2015, 05:56:01 am »
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...Cool.

I would not have thought it would be such a big deal but it really does seem important to some people.
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Re: Glasses that fix colour blindness
« Reply #1 on: March 21, 2015, 01:11:08 pm »
I wonder if it's possible to make contacts that do the same thing.

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Re: Glasses that fix colour blindness
« Reply #2 on: March 21, 2015, 02:06:21 pm »
Askold, that's a misleading title.

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The glasses don't “restore” color, but uses filters to help enhance the separability of the spectrum that they can see.

It doesn't actually fix colorblindness.
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Re: Glasses that fix colour blindness
« Reply #3 on: March 21, 2015, 02:29:19 pm »
Oh yeah?! Well YOUR title is misleading!

Colour blindness makes people unable to differentiate certain colours but the glasses help them do so. Therefore you can say that it helps "fix" the ailment or at least the symptoms.
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Re: Glasses that fix colour blindness
« Reply #4 on: March 21, 2015, 03:27:29 pm »
Be pedantic, 'chew. It would be hard to fit all the words needed for that in the thread title, anyway.
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Re: Glasses that fix colour blindness
« Reply #5 on: March 21, 2015, 08:03:00 pm »
Pretty cool. Though now I want to know if you could build something equivalent for non-colourblind people.
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Re: Glasses that fix colour blindness
« Reply #6 on: March 21, 2015, 08:16:34 pm »
Beer goggles, 'cept with mushrooms.
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Re: Glasses that fix colour blindness
« Reply #7 on: April 06, 2015, 04:48:51 pm »
Now they take it all back.  Turns out the inventor was color blind to begin with.
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