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High-tech glasses help legally blind people see for first time

June 28, 2013
By Amanda Pedersen
TORONTO — Yvonne Felix, an artist and mother, can watch her two young boys play at a park, read restaurant menus and street signs, and work at a job that until recently she would have had to turn down due to low vision caused by her Stargardt's Disease. She's one of many people whose lives have been changed by a high-tech pair of glasses developed by a small Canadian company called eSight eyewear (Ottawa).
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