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From a Visionary English Physicist, Self-Adjusting Lenses for the Poor

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Joshua Silver aims to distribute his special glasses throughout the developing world. The glasses, which are manufactured in China, are not sleek. In fact, he acknowledged, "detractors call them ugly." (By Mary Jordan / TWP)

Joshua Silver models a pair of the self-adjusting glasses he developed for the poor. The glasses work on the principle that the more liquid pumped into a thin sac in the plastic lenses, the stronger the correction. (By Mary Jordan / TWP)

Innovators

From a Visionary English Physicist, Self-Adjusting Lenses for the Poor

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