Technology: Enter the titan

You may have seen a recent TV advert where a barber, under the watchful eye of ubiquitous actor Kevin Bacon, is able to, by means of electronic gloves and WiFi, wet shave a customer seated atop a mountain many miles from his shop. I was reminded of this recently when I heard of the imminent launch at this year’s Mido of the new Eyoto Theia, the world’s first remote digital slit lamp platform. As well as adding an optometric element to the game of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon (always worth playing), the Theia offers the opportunity for a patient to be assessed from another room in a practice, another city, another country, or even another continent.