Bioptic telescopic glasses are restoring vision to people where glasses fail, but no one has heard of the devices, and few doctors are referring patients for them, says optometrist Chris Palmer.

Look into different vision aids available to you that could be beneficial. Examples of aids for the visually impaired include telescopic glasses, light-filtering lenses, magnifying glasses and ...

Optometrist Chris Palmer prescribes devices that can help improve people’s vision when other glasses can’t. Wittayayut Seethong/Dreamstime/TNS Dick Bramer, 76, likes to watch birds flock ...

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I built my first telescope at about 14 years of age. I reveled in the mechanics but not in making of optics. Luckily my friend, the late Dick Wessling, a great “glass pusher”, made my optics ...

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Dick Bramer likes to watch birds flock outside the window of his home in Scandia. But for two years he couldn't see them well enough to identify the various species. "I've got bird feeders and ...

Examples of aids for the visually impaired include telescopic glasses, light-filtering lenses, magnifying glasses and electronic glasses.

Examples of aids for the visually impaired include telescopic glasses, light-filtering lenses, magnifying glasses and electronic glasses.

Telescopic glasses are "basically binoculars" that affix to glasses and magnify images so that objects look bigger, closer and clearer, said Palmer, who has specialized in this area since 2008.