Blind people can now effectively 'see' thanks to a brilliant new invention - glasses that tell wearers what they are looking at.
The glasses, which contain tiny cameras, can identify everything from shop doorways to the contents of a fridge - giving a verbal commentary through a phone app and earpiece.
Users can even have printed text read out loud simply by pointing at the words, while those with partial sight can zoom in as they need.
Astonishingly, facial-recognition software will instantly tell the user not only the name of an approaching person but their job and date of any previous meeting.
Fans of the TV series Star Trek: The Next Generation might spot a resemblance to the device used by the blind character Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge.