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3 Ways too much Screen Time can Hurt your Kids’ Eyes - As parents whose children are growing up in the midst of the digital age and a pandemic, we are faced with a new type of challenge – getting our children to put down their smartphones and get up and moving. The addictive nature of mobile devices is undeniable. Throw in the stay home measures that… Read full article >
What Do Singaporean Parents Know About Myopia? - Singapore has been deemed as the myopia capital of the world, but how much do parents know about this stifling vision condition? Read full article >
Cheers To That: 3 Super Food Smoothies For Healthy Vision! - While practicing good eye care habits every day can definitely help improve your eyesight, why not incorporate some yummy treats to include in the process too? Read full article >
The Stress Of The Screen Is Causing That Strain In Your Eyes - You're not tired, your eyes are tired. The cause? The one thing you probably can't live without - your phone screen. Read full article >
Myth or Truth: Does blue light actually hurt our eyes? - Our eyes are exposed to blue light every day. Many of us know that it is emitted from our digital devices and LED lights, but did you know that it is also emitted by the sun? In fact, sunlight is the biggest source of blue light and until recently (before the Covid-19 pandemic, that is),… Read full article >
Prepping Your Child For Their First Pair Of Glasses In 5 Easy Steps - Like any of our first times, your child's first pair of glasses can come with the addition of nerves and self-consciousness. Here's how to prepare your child for their first ever pair of glasses. Read full article >
Can My Kids Develop Myopia If It Doesn’t Run In The Family? - It's true that myopia is more common in children who have parents with myopia, however, people can still develop the disorder when it doesn’t run in the family. Read full article >
Increased Screen Time During Stay-Home Measures Must Be Managed - Technology has made the pivot to working and learning from home much easier, but it's important to be aware of the amount of time you're dedicating to the screen. Read full article >
The Solution To Your Child’s Smartphone Addiction - What do you do when they just can't peel their eyes off the screen? Read full article >
5 Habits That Threaten Your Child’s Online Safety - The ease of using devices has brought about some bad habits that could make us victims of cybercriminals, especially our children who are not aware of these online dangers. Read full article >
This is how every Parent can Set Parental Controls on Android Phones - For many parents, managing their children’s screen time is a huge stressor they have to deal with on a daily basis. Are you implementing screen time rules in vain? More often than not, we parents turn to implement arbitrary screen time rules in our household only after we have noticed that our children are spending… Read full article >
Screen Time Post-Lockdown: 3 Easy Steps You Can Take To Manage It - As lockdown restrictions ease and our children return to school, how do we help them wean back on the duration of screen time they've become so used to Read full article >
Stressed About Your Child’s Screen Time? Here’s A Solution For You - As parents, we're naturally concerned about our child's device-use and this may be a source of stress for some of us. But here's a solution that's sure to help moderate your child's screen time. Read full article >
Curb Your Child’s Device Dependency With Positive Reinforcement - While device dependency seems like another problem to add to our long list of worries, it’s not as hard to manage as you may think. Read full article >
Here’s Why You’re Making A Huge Mistake When You Deny Screen Time From Your Child As Punishment - When we choose to punish or reward our children with screen time, we're over-inflating the value of the screens and making it into a big deal, when it really shouldn't be. Read full article >
3 Things All Parents NEED To Know To Keep Up With Your Digitally-Wired Children - Keeping up with your young ones in the digital 21st Century can prove to be a challenge, but here's how you can be a parent ready for the digital age. Read full article >
Japan thinks smartphones are destroying students’ eyesight - The eyesight of Japan's students is deteriorating and the country's government thinks smartphones are to blame. A recent survey conducted by Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology found that the number of students with vision below the standard 1.0 score (equivalent to 20/20 vision) is at an all-time high of 25.3 percent. Worse… Read full article >
The first long-term study on how screen time affects children’s brains suggests more than 2 hours a day could do damage - A first-of-its-kind study from the National Institutes of Health is analyzing how screen time affects children's brains, CBS News reported. Over the next decade, the study will follow more than 11,000 children, who are currently 9 to 10 years old, as they grow up around screens. “We’ll be able to see not only how much… Read full article >
Google and Levi’s smart jacket can now warn you if you’re about to leave your phone behind - Google and Levi’s Jacquard smart jacket has introduced a new function designed to stop you from mistakenly leaving your phone behind, as spotted by Android Police. The feature, called Always Together, is an automatic alert that will go off if the jacket moves too far away from your phone. When triggered, notifications happen on both ends.… Read full article >
China’s new games censors take tough stance - A panel of censors set up to vet mobile video games in China has signalled it will be hard to please. State media reports that of the first 20 titles it assessed, nine were refused permission to on sale. The Xinhua news agency added that developers of the other 11 had been told they had… Read full article >
Children spending hours a day in front of screens are at risk of ‘short-sightedness, obesity and CANCER’ - Spending too much time gawping at screens is making children more likely to be short-sighted, become overweight and get cancer, experts say. A review of 80 studies on more than 200,000 people has ranked smartphones and tablets alongside sugary drinks as one of the biggest risks for childhood obesity. Being overweight can lead to a… Read full article >
Is screen-related short-sightedness the next health timebomb? - Will buying your child an iPad this Christmas doom them to a lifetime of short-sightedness? Possibly. In recent years, smartphones, screens, and social media have been blamed for everything from obesity to loneliness to shortening attention-spans, and now they have received their latest indictment. A study published last week by King's College London reported a "digital… Read full article >
Facebook, Instagram roll out tools that allow you to manage the time you spend on the apps - Facebook and Instagram have decided to roll out new tools to help people manage their time on the apps. The tools include an activity dashboard, a daily reminder and a new way to limit notifications. The company said it has developed the tools based on collaboration and inspiration from leading mental health experts and organisations,… Read full article >
Google DeepMind’s AI Can Detect 50 Eye Disease Conditions And Save Sight - DeepMind, a Google-owned artificial intelligence company, has developed an AI system that can accurately identify 50 different types of eye condition as accurately as a doctor. The system — capable of analysing 3D retinal OCT scans for early signs of conditions like glaucoma, diabetic eye disease and macular degeneration — has been developed through a joint research… Read full article >
Is Your Phone’s Blue Light Ruining your Sleep? - At the end of a long day of balancing all the stresses that modern life throws at you, once you finally get to sit down and put your feet up, how do you spend those last couple of hours of downtime before you go to sleep? And how do your children spend this time? If… Read full article >
The Case Against Working Harder: Digital Eye Strain and its dire consequences on your productivity - In today’s frantic world that prioritises productivity over almost everything else, many of us have adopted the philosophy that we should spend hours on end at our screens for fear of losing precious moments of productivity. However, one commonly overlooked consequence of staring at screens for too long may actually be hurting your efficiency to… Read full article >
Should we ban our children from using smartphones? - “Should we ban our children from using smartphones?” It is a question that has been at the heart of several contentious global discussions surrounding our youth’s excessive device usage, especially in recent years. In fact, a mounting body of research has linked excessive device use with numerous mental health conditions. Internet Addiction Disorder (IAD) is now officially recognised by… Read full article >
It’s Valentine’s Day; so engage your partner not your phone! - We’ve all been there – one minute you’re having a heart-to-heart conversation, a real moment with your significant other, when suddenly a ping from your phone interrupts you and several things happen at once: Your eyes instinctively flicker to your buzzing screen, you move to turn it off, but not before catching sight of the notification and feeling compelled… Read full article >
2020: It’s about time we fulfill the world’s right to sight. - We are now well into the year 2020, a milestone surging with significance for the world of eye health for many reasons. Eye health bodies the world over have begun 2020 with a resolve to promote vision care and to spread awareness on vision-related issues that the global population continues to face. For instance, The American… Read full article >
Why are we so lonely? Our greatest invention may be to blame. - Fortnite. Facebook. Tinder. Skype. What do these platforms have in common? They have all made it exponentially easier for us to connect with people from virtually all corners of the world. Ironically, while the internet has made us more connected in a practical sense, it has become the ultimate source of a sinister phenomenon that… Read full article >
Why your Smartphone can be a Pain in your Neck - On every bus or train, at every café or restaurant and even while crossing the street or walking on the footpath, we see people looking down, hunched over their smart devices, their necks contorted into unnatural postures while they scroll away, lost in the digital world on their phone screens. Considering how pervasive this scene… Read full article >
From an Idea to a Complete Ecosystem - Plano was developed with a clear purpose; to save sight and empower lives. With a culture of disruptive thinking grounded in real scientific research Read full article >
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