9-Year-Old Boy Develops Eye Disorder Detecting App

In this digital age, we can do almost anything we want with our smartphones. And one of the reasons is the ocean of apps available for download.

Recently, a nine-year-old boy from Mumbai has created an app that can help improve our life quality.

Nine-year-old Garvit Sood has developed an eye-checkup app. Called Drishti, the app can detect eye disorders. He has learned coding at White Hat Junior, which is an online platform that teaches basic coding to kids from 6 to 14 years old.

Garvit himself is a victim of late detection. He was later diagnosed to have astigmatism. That was why Garvit wanted to make use of his coding knowledge to build an app to deal with this issue. It’s an easy-to-use app. All a user needs to do is reading the alphabets or numbers in different sizes on their smartphone’s screen.

And based on their reading accuracy level, the user will receive their vision score. And from that score, the app will tell the user whether they have to visit a doctor or not.

The app can be helpful for people in rural areas where access to doctors is a luxury. Doctors can also use this app to test their patients’ eyes for an initial diagnosis.

With Drishti, Garvit has become one of the twelve young developers who get to visit the Silicon Valley.

Participating in the program, he will come to the Silicon Valley to present his product to top venture capitalists like Owl Ventures and Nexus Venture Partners.

He will also have the chance to learn about entrepreneurship, visit Googleplex and talk with their engineers, visit Waymo facility, talk to the product managers there and experience driverless cars.

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