Supernormal vision: a focus on adaptive optics improves images
of the eye and boosts vision.Anyone who grew up reading comic
books may recall the advertisement that always graced the back
pages, touting weird and wonderful gizmos designed to appeal to
fun-loving youngsters. In one classic ad, a crew-cut boy
sporting horn-rimmed "X-ray specs" stares gleefully glee·ful
Full of jubilant delight; joyful. glee at the bones in his hand.
With the specs, the ad promised, mere mortals could acquire the
super-vision of Superman. Most people with failing eyesight are
satisfied just to have glasses or contact lenses that can keep
their vision within the 20/20 range. One group of researchers,
however, has developed a technology that can endow people with a
new kind of supernormal su·per·nor·mal 1. Greatly exceeding the
normal or average but still obeying natural laws. Adj. 1.
vision. Following the tradition of binoculars' helping people to
observe distant objects and night vision goggles' allowing them
to see in the dark,