Improve your eyesight (presbyopia) with an iPhone app

[mrsebastian]

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/99217-improve-your-eyesight-with-an-iphone-app

[naner]

So this app trains people with presbyopia to recognize blurry shapes as the corresponding text. Am I understanding this right?

This doesn't improve your eyesight, it just trains people to decipher certain types of blurry text.

[gallamine → naner]

The optics don't improve, true, but the processing does. In the end, you can see better.

[jws]

$95 for three months of a reading training program. That's one way to crack out of the $1 app market.

I predict great success for them, and if the claims are true, happy customers too.

[ovi256 → jws]

I predict $1 copycats in 3, 2, 1 ...