3D Printed Smart Glasses to Help Dyslexic Children

Abeye is a young French company supported by Atol Les Opticiens. The medtech startup manufactures electronic glasses intended to improve everyone’s well-being. After the success of its first pair, Spectalert, which detects falls in the elderly, Abeye is now launching Lexilens purposed to make reading easier for people with dyslexia. And if this innovative product interests us at 3Dnatives, it is because the startup has resorted to additive manufacturing to accelerate its prototyping phase as well as to industrialize the first of its units.

3Dnatives went to meet Michaël Kodochian, founder and CEO of Abeye, to learn more about the manufacturing process of the pair of glasses. The startup notably worked hand in hand with the ERPRO 3D printing service, which used HP Multi Jet Fusion technology to design Lexilens. We were able to go behind the scenes of the manufacturing process:

Lexilens glasses allow you to activate a filter with a simple push which removes all the mirror images seen by people suffering from dyslexia. Additive manufacturing played a key role for Abeye throughout the research and development stages, in particular by allowing it to accelerate iterations. Using HP’s Multi Jet Fusion technology, the company was able to imagine different mounts easily and very quickly and move to pre-series production reliably and repeatably.