EnChroma Glasses are an amazing product of hard scientific work. Though there have been many attempts to aid with colorblindness, none have matched up to theEnChroma Glasses. Many videos have been uploaded to YouTube of wearers experiencing colors for the first time. Many of them were even moved to tears.

These glasses can cost anywhere upward of 350 dollars but are well worth the cost. They yield results like the ones shown above. They function by restoring spectral separation between cones in the eye using a narrow-band notch filter. For someone who is not a colorblind specialist, that is very hard to understand. Essentially, it could be likened to wearing an Instagram filter on your sunglasses, but instead of distorting the colors, it shows their more saturated form. Just like prescription glasses, they fit to your specific eye’s need in order to correct the colorblindness.

Still don’t grasp color blindness? This website does a great job at explaining it at depth. In short, cones in the eye are to respond to blue, red, and green wavelengths. When blue waves come in they activate the blue cone, and you see blue. If you see a mix of colors, it activates a little of more than one cone. For the color blind, when a red or green (or whatever colorblindness the person has) wave comes in, the cones both react, causing the person to see the dull brownish mixture of red and green as opposed to the real color.

It is amazing that we have come far enough that color blind people have easy access to these resources. More research should definitely be done in this field to help make these products more accessible to lower income people as well as continually improve product quality. This work is extremely important as it helps people to perform tasks that are simpler (like sorting or picking out clothes) in a more efficient way, and even keeps people safe (driving).