Visoclip and Visoscope iPhone Eye Exams

In 1915, Francis Welch and William Allyn began a company that made the first handheld ophthalmoscope with direct lighting—a now familiar fixture in every internal medicine office. Also called a “funduscope,” its purpose is to illuminate and magnify the fundus in the back of the eye, looking for vascular disease of the retina. Now, a company in West Auckland, NZ, “oDocs Eye Care,” has an iPhone attachment that serves as a fundus camera, with a 50% field of view. This is not the first report of such a device, but it may be the first that’s actually for sale at present.     MORE

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