{"id":158,"date":"2009-02-11T18:05:52","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T17:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.selectspecs.com\/professor-focused-on-cheap-glasses\/"},"modified":"2009-02-11T18:05:52","modified_gmt":"2009-02-11T17:05:52","slug":"professor-focused-on-cheap-glasses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/professor-focused-on-cheap-glasses\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor focused on cheap glasses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"first\">We found an interesting article on the BBC News website earlier this week that we thought would be of interest to our readers:<\/p>\n<p><strong>A retired Oxford University physics professor has designed adjustable glasses that can be used by people in the developing world.<\/strong><!-- E SF -->\u00a0 Professor Silver&#8217;s spectacles are altered by injecting tiny quantities of fluid into the lenses. The spectacles mean people can have glasses that suit their eyes without the need for a prescription.\u00a0 The invention should enable millions of people in poorer parts of the world to get glasses for the first time. <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"BBC News\" src=\"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/picture-1.png\" \/> To read more and to watch the news clip, visit\u00a0<strong>BBC.co.uk<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We found an interesting article on the BBC News website earlier this week that we&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[415,916,937],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}