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Get your next eye exam on a smartphone

1,249,441 views | Andrew Bastawrous • TED2014

Thirty-nine million people in the world are blind, and the majority lost their sight due to curable and preventable diseases. But how do you test and treat people who live in remote areas, where expensive, bulky eye equipment is hard to come by? TED Fellow Andrew Bastawrous demos a smartphone app and cheap hardware that might help.

Thirty-nine million people in the world are blind, and the majority lost their sight due to curable and preventable diseases. But how do you test and treat people who live in remote areas, where expensive, bulky eye equipment is hard to come by? TED Fellow Andrew Bastawrous demos a smartphone app and cheap hardware that might help.

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Andrew Bastawrous

Andrew Bastawrous

Eye surgeon, inventor

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TED Fellow Andrew Bastawrous studies eye health -- and builds accessible new tools to bring eye care to more people.

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