Most people wear glasses to see better, but a new pair developed by MIT scientist is a bit more high-tech.

Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will present a new invention Monday that helps people improve their memory without doing anything.

Whatever you need to remember is programmed into a tiny computer that you wear. The computer sends messages in the form of light to a mini TV screen on the glasses. The messages — like someone’s name, or a word like keys or medicine — flash before your eyes at 180th of a second. It’s too fast for the eyes to notice, but not the brain.

“Our tests have shown a 50 percent better memory with these than without, and the thing that’s interesting is that people aren’t even aware that anything is happening,” MIT spokesman Dr. Alex Pentland said.

Source: TheIndyChannel

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