Smartphones: is there anything they can’t do? Phone, camera, music player, portable console, the list of jobs your mobile can take on is an impressive one, and you can now add optometrist to the list too.

Well, not quite – but your smartphone can be used to gather the data your optometrist needs to work out if you need glasses or not. It’s the brainchild of US startup Blink, which has just launched its service in New York.

For US$75 (about £50, AU$97) a Blink “visioneer” will call around to your house with a VR headset-style bit of kit and a customised smartphone. After a few scans, the results are sent back to a qualified optometrist for analysis.
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