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Saving The Eyesight
Children are stubborn and they don’t understand that viewing the computer (or TV) screen from too near a distance can affect their eyesight. As a victim of wearing glasses right from the eight grade, I have learnt this the hard way too. So designers Zhichao Xue & Chen Yizi have a very clever solution at hand. Place the I-CARE sensor on top of any screen and it keeps a check on the distance from which a person is viewing the screen. When the distance is less than 50 cm, the screen blurs up, forcing the person to step back for a crystal clear display.
I-CARE uses the human instinct rather than the preaching of the parents, and it can make the children take the initiative to adjust to the appropriate distance, so as to protect their eyes.
I-CARE is a 2012 Liton Award Winning entry
Designers: Zhichao Xue & Chen Yizi
12 Comments »
Cr. says
You can not hurt your eyes sitting too close. That is an urban myth and does not cause people to need glasses.
Levi says
Selling a solution to an urban myth… anyone want some snake oil?
raja sandhu says
I think this is so clever. Who’s to say what damage future screen technology may have on the eyes. Besides, it encourages good posture (it would for me anyway). Studies also show we are spending more time in front of
a computer screen than that
accounted for in the debunk-the-myth evidence.
People are
more
gullible buying bottled water.
Cris says
I’m legally blind (since birth) and HAVE to sit that close to a computer screen. This product would not work for me.
MJ says
http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/smart-takes/sitting-close-to-television-computer-screens-not-bad-for-eyes-doctors-say/4251
Solution for a designed problem.
Hunter says
http://www.mnn.com/health/fitness-well-being/questions/does-sitting-too-close-to-the-tv-really-hurt-my-eyes
Thanks, doc, but I’ll still sit back here where I’m comfortable.
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