February 21st, 2004
Cheap Glasses
Student honored for device that makes quick, cheap eyeglass lenses
An MIT graduate student won the Lemelson-MIT Student Prize and $30,000 on Thursday for inventing a device that makes low-cost eyeglass lenses within 10 minutes. Saul Griffith, a 30-year-old doctoral candidate, also created electronic goggles that diagnose vision problems.