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Electronic glasses let the legally blind see clearly again
KING 5's Jean Enersen reports.
KING 5 HealthLink 7:47 p.m. PDT May 21, 2015




Briana Grubb hasn't been able to see even the largest of print since she was 10 years old, but new technology is about to change her life. It's called eSight and consists of a pair of video monitors, mounted like glasses, with a small camera out front that's able to magnify and adjust images.

"It's like night and day. It's like turning on a light. It's like you can't see and now you can," she said.

Briana breezes through even the fine print. The achievement isn't lost on her sister,

"My whole life, I've never seen her with sight. I've never seen her have a normal experience. And I just saw her have that and I have no words," said Gene Bowling.

According to Dr. Tom Azman, similar technology has failed in the past

"Too many buttons, it didn't work, the battery died out, but this is the latest and greatest technology," he said

eSight costs about $15,000 to get up and running.

It does not work for those who are totally blind.