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Old 02-25-2014, 08:45 PM   #1
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Default Online eye exam that writes you a prescription.

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Opternative’s test takes five to 10 minutes and costs around $35 — 75 percent less than in-person exams. With $1 million in funding, it plans to launch this summer.

“Doing eye testing day in and day out, I thought ‘there has to be a better way to do this’”, Dr Steven Lee tells me. The co-founder of Opternative graduated from optometry school in 2007 and has been practicing ever since. He realized that with advances in computers and phones, he could probably replace that clunky ‘What’s better? One or two’ machine.
http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/25/do-i-need-glasses/

Would you do it? Quite a bit of savings in time and money.

I imagine it won't diagnose complex conditions, but I can see it working if your eyes are pretty simple.
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