We are honoured to have been included in the Italia Geniale catalogue compiled by ADI Design to represent Italian excellence at Expo Dubai.
Our iconic 2WIN, which had already received an award from ADI Design in 2013, receives further recognition. It has been chosen as one of the 100 most representative products of 60 years of Italian design and Adaptica couldn’t be prouder.

At the Italian Pavilion at Expo Dubai, on the occasion of the Dubai Design Week, the exhibition ITALIA GENIALE opened: Design enables Beauty, Originality, Creativity of Universally Appreciated Industrial Design. An exhibition organised by ADI and ADI Design Museum for the Ministry of Economic Development, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and the General Commissariat for Expo 2020 Dubai, in collaboration with UIBM Ufficio Italiano Brevetti e Marchi, Unioncamere and ITA/ICE Italian Trade Agency.

On display are images, materials and artefacts of Italian design that speak of imagination, work, wellbeing, relationships between people and health. The exhibition starts from the valorisation of Italy’s heritage of trademarks and patents, touching on history, material culture and technical culture, to intertwine with the history of design.

Adaptica with its 2WIN was selected to appear in the catalogue that was presented last week at Expo Dubai in the Live-able section.
One further motif of pride for Adaptica and its vision screener with the best design in the entire market. We are really honoured to represent Italian’s excellence and be listed with so many inspirational and iconic products and brands.

Also, one of our suppliers is present in the catalogue, synonyms of the great work our suppliers do and the efforts we put to choose the best Italian partners to produce our devices.

A special thanks to Paolo Bacco the designer of our product and founder of RebelDesign.

You can find the whole catalogue of selected companies and products here (Adaptica can be found on pages 218-219):

Dr Mario Angi is a renown  ophthalmologist based in Padova and President of CBM Italia Onlus, a non-profit organization with headquarter in Germany.
During the last mission screening in Bolivia, Dr. Angi examined more than 200 kids using Kaleidos. Below is his comment on the use of Kaleidos in this mission trip:

“During the screening conducted in Bolivia from the 26th of April to the 2nd of May 2019, we examined more than 200 kids at first grade school, comparing the data and visual acuity performed by Kaleidos, with the ones performed by HandyRef Nidek’s autorefractor – without cycloplegic. At the end the results showed that astigmatism measurements almost match between the two devices: Kaleidos, for the spherical defect, doesn’t generate a false myopia – found in 20% of the exams made with the autorefractometer without cycloplegic. Combining Kaleidos – a binocular refractometer – with visual acuity measurement reduces the risks of false positive results due to non-collaborative pediatric patients and helps to identify the patients with strabismus >10 PD.”

On May 2nd, OneSight hosted an event with National Geographic at the National Geographic Society Headquarters, bringing together some of the brightest minds in vision care to discuss serving the neediest populations around the world. We were invited to take part to this event where the Pulitzer Prize photographer Stephanie Sinclair was the keynote speaker. Stephanie Sinclair is the same photographer who provided the photos that accompany the beautiful National Geographic’s article on the use of Kaleidos and VisionFit during the Onesight mission in the Amazon River.

The panel discussion brought to life the existing lack of access to eye care services that many individuals and entire countries like Rwanda, Brazil, China, and the US suffer. The right of a clear sight impact education outcomes, economic potential, and quality of life. We can solve this critical global vision care gap for good, together.

A”Future everyone can see”: this is our common goal now.

Discover more about the event here!