iPhone Eye Test Spots Vision Problems Cheaply, Smart Vision Labs Reveals

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Peer into a smartphone, and all will become clear. Smart Vision Labs, a start-up in New York City, wants to make it easier to diagnose vision problems in developing countries with an iPhone camera add-on. The World Health Organization estimates that 246 million people have poor vision. Of these, about 90 per cent live in low-income areas without good access to healthcare or expensive diagnostic machines.

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