…made on-the-spot with a sub $200, wearable auto-refractor and a flexible membrane molding system - this is the goal of Saul Griffith, PhD and his California-based company OptiOpia to serve the estimated 150 million people who are blind or severely visually impaired because of an uncorrected refractive error and hundreds of millions more low-income individuals around the world. Dr. Griffith inventor of both the portable lens molder and low-cost autorefractor was recently awarded the 2007 “genius grant” award by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for his promising work.