Visit to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized talk recommendations and more. As you age, you gradually lose the ability to refocus your eyes — a phenomenon as old as humanity […]
Glasses were originally created to overcome physical obstacles, but Debbie Millman, host of "Design Matters," shares how they turned into a fashion statement. Small Thing Big Idea, a TED original series, celebrates the lasting genius […]
In 2011, eye surgeon and TED Fellow Andrew Bastawrous developed a smartphone app that brings quality eye care to remote communities, helping people avoid losing their sight to curable or preventable conditions. Along the way, […]
Thousands of years ago, ancient Nubians drew pictures on tomb walls of a terrible disease that turns the eyelids inside out and causes blindness. This disease, trachoma, is still a scourge in many parts of […]
Ten years ago, researchers thought that getting a computer to tell the difference between a cat and a dog would be almost impossible. Today, computer vision systems do it with greater than 99 percent accuracy. […]
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