At home glaucoma glove wins Dyson Award

A new device that enables patients to non-invasively test their own intraocular pressure at home has won the international James Dyson Award.

Called the Home Eye Pressure E-Skin Sensor (Hopes), the glove was developed by Kelu Yu, Si Li and David Lee from the National University of Singapore.

Yu was inspired to create a more efficient way of testing intraocular pressure for patients when her father was diagnosed with glaucoma in 2019. ‘This personal experience motivated me to delve deeper into the disease and treatments,’ she explained.

‘At-home self-tonometry is inaccurate while the more accurate Goldmann applanation tonometry remains a clinical practice. The field of glaucoma has lagged far behind in developing a safe, accurate, low cost, at home eye pressure sensor.’