Smart glasses help blind father recognise his children

A blind man is finally able to recognise his family again for the first time in 30 years thanks to a pair of £1,800 high-tech glasses. Marc Bilton, 48, suffers from a degenerative eye condition which forced him to give up his job as a microbiologist and stop playing football with his sons. But he's been given a completely new lease of life after his wife discovered a pioneering pair of high-tech glasses which recognises faces and reads for him. Mark said: "Immediately I was able to read things that I could read before - I can read a paper now.