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from Business Weekly
The eyes
have it in new deal with the Japanese
By Alice Walker, 15 November 2002
Diverse Technologies
based in Great Shelford, Cambridge, has signed an agreement to
exploit instrumentation and tinted lens technology with the Japanese
spectacle manufacturing giant, Hoya Lens. Diverse Technologies
based in Great Shelford, Cambridge, has signed an agreement to
exploit instrumentation and tinted lens technology with the Japanese
spectacle manufacturing giant, Hoya Lens.
Diverse has
recently won UK Government support for their project to design
an instrument that will assess a patient's sensitivity to the
colour of illumination and produce a prescription for the tinted
lens.
By choosing
the right colour, significant improvement can be made in alleviating
a number of visually-induced conditions such as migraine and visual
dyslexia.
The instrument,
named Read-Eye, uses tests developed in conjunction with Ian Jordan,
an internationally recognised expert in visual and perceptual
problems.Hoya Lens manufactures a range of tinted lenses, some
of which are particularly targeted at helping with these visually
induced conditions.
This is not
the first Diverse product to help those with visual dyslexia.
The company already produces a colour-controlled task light, Optim-Eyes,
which is mainly used by school children and students who suffer
from visual dyslexia.
Teachers are
already using Optim-eyes to assess pupils for sensitivity to colour
and refer them to opticians. Local access centres are helping
students directly with advice and grants.
Read-Eye is
currently undergoing clinical trials, and the results to date
look very promising. Diverse MD John Anderson said: "The agreement
with Hoya is an important step in bringing this new technology
to the high street. I would expect that leading opticians will
be able to offer the testing service and lenses by the end of
2003.
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