VIDEO: Little Boy Puts Glasses On then Bursts into Tears!

Have you ever thought how would your life be like if you couldn’t see colors? This little colorblind fellow receives for his birthday a pair of special glasses. And the moment he looks through the lenses, his emotions come bursting out. Prepare your tissues!
While they may look like an ordinary pair of sunglasses, but these Enchroma glasses allow color blind people to see color for the first time.

According to pickle.nine.com.au, the glasses were the brainchild of glass scientist Donald MacPherson, who was making protective glasses for laser surgeons to wear during operations when he realized some of them were wearing them as sunglasses. He started doing the same.
“I was playing at an Ultimate Frisbee tournament and my friend borrowed my glasses and he said… “dude, I can see the cones,” said McPherson. The man was referring to the fluorescent orange cones that defined the field.
From there, he decided to develop glasses exclusively to help color blind people see what others take for granted every day.
Seth Porges, a color blind Forbes contributor tried out the specs and found out a previously mundane wall was not as muted as he naturally perceived it.
“This brick wall had always appeared brown to me,” Porges said. “Now, it was a bright red.
The EnChroma glasses do not ‘cure’ color blindness. “As vibrant as leaves and bricks now appear, when presented with a color blindness test… I still fail it,” explained Porges.
One in 12 men and one in 200 women are affected by color blindness. The condition is more common in Caucasians, with color vision deficiency stats rising from the global average of eight per cent in men to 10 to 10 percent in Scandinavian men.
In the back of the eye, the retina, are two types of light-sensitive cells called rods and cones. Cones are the cells responsible for identifying colors by picking up different light wavelengths.
One type of cone perceives blue light, one does green and another picks up red. When light enters the eye and stimulates cells, this sends signals to the brain which are interpreted as colors.
People with color blindness have bung cones, which means the color spectrum isn’t as vivid for them as it is for most of the population.
And there are different types of color blindness despite, deuteranomaly, a reduced sensitivity to green light, being the most common form.
There’s also protanomaly, a reduced sensitivity to red light and tritanomaly, which is a diminished capacity to perceive blue light.
There’s also a form of color blindness that renders the world in black and white for people with the condition, however, that is incredibly rare.
While you can live with this condition, the quality of life isn’t the same and you can’t enjoy things and have a hard time explaining and understanding some things because you just can’t perceive them the right way. But with science advancing chances are that soon enough there will be a cure or at least a more permanent solution.

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