Smart specs may replace guide dogs

Updated: 18:14, Saturday Nov 24, 2012

Researchers contend intelligent specs for a blind could reinstate beam dogs in dual years.

The hi-tech eyeglasses are designed to forestall ‘legally blind’ people with a little grade of residual prophesy from bumping into objects.

They use little stereo cameras in a frames to plan simplified images onto a lenses that turn brighter a closer an intent is.

From Jan subsequent year, a eyeglasses will be tested in a array of trials involving 160 people with exceedingly marred steer in Oxford and London.

Developer Dr Stephen Hicks, from Oxford University, pronounced he hoped a finished indication will be commercially accessible in around dual years.

The cost is approaching to be around STG600 ($A927) – somewhat some-more than a intelligent phone. In comparison, a beam dog costs