Contact lenses

Contact Lenses Could Soon Stop Nearsightedness Dead

Nearsightedness is a pain in the ass that affects over 40 percent of the US population—and it only gets worse with age. Soon, though, children that are identified as myopic will be able to wear special contact lenses that will stop the condition in its tracks. A team of researchers from the State University of…

Health Jamie Condliffe Oct 3

I Am Not Brave Enough To Stick This LED Contact Lens in My Eye

While YouTuber bkraz333 claims this contact lens with an embedded LED he made was an attempt to add a rudimentary VR display to his eye, I think I know the real inspiration behind it—Terminator cosplay. If the thought of sticking a regular contact lens in your eye makes you uncomfortable, you might want to be…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Dec 22

Heads-Up Display Contact Lenses Are One Step Closer After Passing Safety Tests

The days of traditional screens could be numbered if the news coming out of Washington University is anything to go by. It’s testing contact lenses that could project information into the wearers eyes and initial safety tests look promising. We’ve been dreaming of a HUD-style vision enhancer ever since Sci-Fi first introduced the concept to…

Artificial Intelligence Kat Hannaford Nov 22

The 500-Year History of Contact Lenses

Sticking glass in your eye is objectively a bad idea. And yet, in the 1800s, there were several highly educated individuals repeating that very action. If it weren’t for them, 120 million people worldwide, myself included, wouldn’t have this wonderfully engineered tool for clear vision, invisible to both wearer and admirer. The design of the…

Tech News Rachel Swaby Jun 23

Reality-Augmenting Terminator Vision Contact Lenses Nearly Here (They’re in This Bunny’s Eye)

Amazing and terrifying all at once, reality augmenting contact lenses are nearly real. Like, they’re almost here. Circuits and antennas and LEDs in a contact lens, generating virtual imagery, Predator style. In your eyeball. Or, this bunny’s: University of Washington Associate Professor of Biotechnology Babak A. Parviz describes the current state of the art, and…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Sep 1

Stem Cell Contact Lenses Cure Blindness in Less Than a Month

Here’s something that people with poor or no vision will be excited about: three patients had their sight restored in less than a month by contact lenses cultured with stem cells. All three patients were blind in one eye. The researchers extracted stem cells from their working eyes, cultured them in contact lenses for 10…

Tech News Adam Frucci Jun 3

Countact Lens Case Keeps An Eye On Your Contact’s Lifespans

A contact lens case for disposable lenses with a built-in back-lit LCD timer with customizable delay so you know when to replace your lenses. That’s about all I need to say about Countact. The battery’s built-in, so you can’t replace it when it dies after about 3 months: but you all know you should change…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Nov 4

I See No Possible Dangers to Embedding Swarovski Crystals in Contact Lenses

Gee whiz guys, why didn’t any of us think of this sooner? You know Swarovski crystals, those fancy, shiny pieces of glass that kind of look like diamonds but are much cheaper? Let’s put them in contact lenses! Sure, it’s essentially putting shards of glass on your eye, but it’s just so cool looking! Bling…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Sep 2

Smart Contacts Will Detect Glaucoma Before It Blinds You

Researchers at UC Davis have designed contact lenses that can give you an in-eye checkup to make sure there’s nothing wrong, as well as dispense medication automatically when needed. The “smart” lenses use an organic polymer called PDMS (polydimethylsiloxane, if you’re nasty) that detects eye pressure and sends that data to a computer-important updates to…

Health Elaine Chow Aug 9

Contact Lenses of the Future Will Treat Your Eye Diseases

The World Health Organization estimates that glaucoma is the second leading cause of blindness worldwide. And though the first leading cause of blindness – cataracts – can be treated with surgery, the blindness caused by glaucoma can’t be permanently cured. That’s why Tingrui Pan and Hailin Cong, researchers at UC Davis, have designed a contact…

io9 Nivair H. Gabriel Aug 7

Eyelid Jewelry Contact Lenses: Just Seeing Them Makes Eyes Water

Sporry guyss, there’lll be speling mistkes in this post coz I cnt see the keyboord proply: my eyess ar watercingg to much. *dab dab* Ah that’s better. Just don’t think too much about the eyelid jewelery from designer Eric Klarenbeek, or your eyes too will fill up in sympathy with that poor model. Wearing jewels…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Jul 29

Electronic Contact Lenses Give Future You Crazy Eyesight, Heads-up Display

Having the internet be constantly displayed no matter where we look is a dream we’ve had for years, but having to shove an electronic contact into our eyes makes us think twice. This prototype device, which has red LEDs and can be worn for up to 20 minutes (tested on rabbits) with no adverse effects.…

Gadgets Jason Chen Jan 17

Magnetic Contact Lenses Keep Tabs On Where You Look

By slapping magnetic contact lenses onto your eyeballs, sensors can track where you’re looking. This could have important applications for the disabled, especially for those who rely on their eyes for control instead of disabled body parts. Right now, however, the Office of Naval Research is the largest sponsor, so you can probably file this…

Tech News Kevinhall2 Jul 11

Nike MaxSight Might Give You Game

Nike is working in conjunction with Bausch & Lomb to develop contact lenses that are able to make the nerdiest of nerds (me) able to hit like Derek Jeter. These contact lenses have the ability to filter out light similar to sunglasses and also can enhance players of fast moving sports like baseball, golf, cricket,…

Gadgets Johnb Jul 22

Contact Lenses Could Soon Stop Nearsightedness Dead

I Am Not Brave Enough To Stick This LED Contact Lens in My Eye

Heads-Up Display Contact Lenses Are One Step Closer After Passing Safety Tests

The 500-Year History of Contact Lenses

Reality-Augmenting Terminator Vision Contact Lenses Nearly Here (They’re in This Bunny’s Eye)

Stem Cell Contact Lenses Cure Blindness in Less Than a Month

Countact Lens Case Keeps An Eye On Your Contact’s Lifespans

I See No Possible Dangers to Embedding Swarovski Crystals in Contact Lenses

Smart Contacts Will Detect Glaucoma Before It Blinds You

Contact Lenses of the Future Will Treat Your Eye Diseases

Eyelid Jewelry Contact Lenses: Just Seeing Them Makes Eyes Water

Electronic Contact Lenses Give Future You Crazy Eyesight, Heads-up Display

Magnetic Contact Lenses Keep Tabs On Where You Look

Nike MaxSight Might Give You Game

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