Growing firm bringing colour to the colourblind


  • TECH
  • Tuesday, 17 May 2016

Farhan Sareshwala, of Berkeley, who is colorblind, tries on a pair of EnChroma glasses that boost and improve color vision on April 18, 2016 in San Ramon, Calif. Sareshwala was one of three participants at Optometric Center & Eyewear Galleria who tried on glasses for indoor and outdoor use which improved their color vision. (Susan Tripp Pollard/Bay Area News Group/TNS)

BERKELEY, California: Fifth-grader Vineeth Prabhuvenkatesh has always had trouble differentiating colours. 

He is among the 8% of males who have some sort of colour vision deficiency, which is most often marked by an inability to differentiate particular colours, according to the National Institutes of Health. 

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