Contact Lenses

A patent filing by Sony reveals its vision for a contact lens that not only records video and photo with a simple blink, but manages to store them right there and then on the user's eyeballs.

​Presbyopia is a common visual condition, in which the eye's lens stiffens to the point that it can't focus on close objects. Glasses, surgery and regular contact lenses do help, but they have drawbacks. That's why scientists are developing self-focusing contacts, inspired by a fish.​

Australian scientists have developed an electrically conductive contact lens with the potential to host miniature computer displays and sensors to help monitor health.

Since 2012, Opternative has been developing an online eye tester that lets users obtain prescriptions for glasses and contacts from the comfort of the home or office. And now with clinical trial success under its belt, it's rolling the service out to the public.

Prototype contact lenses have been created that have tiny telescopes built in to boost vision, and increase magnification in response to the user's eye winks. Originally designed to improve battlefield vision for soldiers, the new lenses may also help people with age-related macular degeneration.

Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley claim to have created a prototype vision-correcting matrix that they claim fits directly to a screen and negates the need for eyeglasses or remedial lenses for farsighted people. This may also eventually help other, more serious, eye problems.

Earlier this year, Google announced that it was testing a glucose-monitoring contact lens. The lens is aimed at helping people with diabetes better manage the disease. A partnership has now been announced with Alcon, which is the eye care division of Novartis, to commercialize the technology.

With Google announcing its testing of a smart contact lens designed to measure glucose levels in tears, the search giant is looking to provide more effective management of diabetes.

Researchers have developed a telescopic contact lens with switchable magnification to assist people suffering from age-related macular degeneration.

New research conducted at Ghent University in Belgium has resulted in the development of a curved LCD display which can be placed within a contact lens.

Experimental new contact lenses may stop nearsightedness from progressing.

DARPA has ordered a prototype of Innovega's seamless form factor HUD system to replace bulky virtual reality headsets.