Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Thu, 23 Jul 2026 21:33:50 +0200https://english.radio.cz/czech-us-start-aims-help-millions-people-poor-vision-8130336© 2026 Radio Prague International An estimated 2.5 billion people around the world suffer from poor vision and over one billion people, mostly in the developing world, can’t afford glasses or don’t have access to them. Previous efforts to address the problem failed because the proffered solutions were either too complex or too costly to scale globally. Now a Czech-US start-up, DOT Glasses, has come up with a solution that offers huge promise. Their one-size-fits-all glasses, designed by a joint venture of Mercedes Benz and Akka Technologies, are self-adjustable, accommodate standard lenses, do not require an optometrist and, at the price of just 3 dollars, are affordable enough to make them accessible to millions, eventually billions of people. I spoke to the firm’s founder and CEO Philip Staehelin about the idea behind this promising enterprise. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/dot_glasses1.jpg?timestamp=1590397306 https://english.radio.cz/czech-us-start-aims-help-millions-people-poor-vision-8130336 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9