Who are we?
WireRim has two co-founders: Korin and Hoang. Both of us have had a life-long interest in tech – especially smartglasses for Korin. When a entrepreneurship program came to our school, this love for tech and wearables came together with Hoang’s shortsightedness to form our idea: smartglasses funding free corrective glasses. You see, before Hoang got glasses, he figured everyone saw the same as him. There are many just like he was. People who may live in places like sub-saharan Africa, where there's one optometrist for every eight million people. People who see the beauty of everyday life through blurry vision.
What’s the problem?
Right now, two and a half billion people all over the world, don’t have access to much needed glasses. That’s over one third of the world who see every day life through blurry vision. This causes a multitude of problems, some of the most prominent being that
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624 million people can’t work at full efficiency or are unable to work at all due to vision
impairment - This alone is estimated to cost the world 3 trillion dollars a year
- Sight problems
also cause many lost opportunities in work and education, especially for women
who are half as likely as men to receive even basic eyecare - This causes further poverty which just feeds the cycle
What are we going to do?
At WireRim, we believe in a world where clear sight is a basic right that everyone has access to.This is why we plan to sell smart glasses. Think normal glasses but smarter – bringing a smart watch’s functionality to your glasses. This will fund free corrective glasses for those who can’t afford it, through the Centre for Vision the Developing World.
How can you help?
We’re still in the process of developing our WireRim smartglasses. With our limited funds, we have made a basic prototype using general tinkering resources. However with $50K, we could enlist the help of professionals from industries of electrical engineering, software engineering and various other industries, to make a polished product – ready for commercialisation and sale to you!
So please, donate and share this project with everyone you know.