Child glasses win the vote

Self-adjusting Child ViSion glasses won the visitor vote at the Design Museum’s Designs of the Year Awards last month.

The product, for children aged 12-18, uses self-adjustable fluid lenses, allowing children without access to an optician to change their prescription as their vision changes.

Inventor Professor Josh Silver said: ‘There are two aspects to eyewear, firstly it has to function properly and give you clear vision, but equally important, it also has to look good. It’s great that the public have taken this design to their hearts and voted us their design of the year.’

He added that the challenge was to get these glasses to the tens of millions of children whose education was hampered by their inability to see a blackboard clearly.