Do you have someone in your life that could benefit from a wearable device designed to assist people who suffer from vision impairment? There is a new product to help those with Macular Degeneration and other vision impairments. Dallas Lighthouse for the Blind is on a mission to make residents in the North Texas area aware of their free services for those with vision impairments.
Dallas Lighthouse for the Blind and Richardson-based Electro-optical medical device manufacturer, Evergaze LLC, have partnered to distribute Evergaze products to an affiliated network of nonprofit organizations nationally. This agreement includes the sale, distribution and customer support for the new seeBoost® miniature wearable device. The product, seeBoost® is designed to assist people experiencing vision loss where conventional refractive techniques fail, including loss of vision due to Age-related and juvenile Macular Degeneration (AMD, Stargardt disease), Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP) and Diabetic Retinopathy.
The seeBoost® miniature wearable device attaches to one’s existing eyewear so that they may see things they have not been able to see.
Dallas Lighthouse for the Blind is a nonprofit organization that serves 150,000 people in 11 area counties who are blind or visually impaired across 7,600 square miles in North Texas. They are working hard to make as many people as possible aware of their free services and products like this that can improve the quality of individual’s lives.
Counties served include Collin, Cooke, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Fannin, Grayson, Hunt, Kaufman, Navarro and Rockwall.
Founded in 1931, the Dallas Lighthouse for the Blind focuses on improving and enhancing the lives and opportunities of individuals in North Texas affected by blindness. The nonprofit agency’s guiding principle is that with knowledge, training and motivation, people with visual impairments can succeed and thrive in any workplace, live independent and meaningful lives, and be vital contributors in their communities.
“We have collaborated with Dallas Lighthouse during the past year to assist in a number of field trials through their adaptive technology lab as we continue to develop and improve seeBoost®" said Patrick Antaki, president of Evergaze. "We are extremely pleased and honored to be aligned with premier organizations such as Dallas Lighthouse and their national affiliates who for decades have provided numerous services to people who are blind and vision impaired.”
Hugh McElroy, president and CEO of Dallas Lighthouse for the Blind said, "We strive to help people with vision loss to receive assistance and technology that has shown strong potential to help them cope with previously lost functional vision. Our decision to support Evergaze with distribution of the seeBoost® device was compelling due to the results we witnessed firsthand during product testing and development at our facilities. We also wish to do our part to help other nonprofit organizations across the U.S. to introduce seeBoost® to their employees and clients in order to maximize the number of people whose quality of life may be improved by this miniature wearable device. The agreement with Evergaze also enables Dallas Lighthouse to provide user training, help desk, peer support, as well as online availability of various device peripherals for seeBoost® users. We will begin to introduce the product to our nonprofit affiliates in mid-January 2017."