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Smart Contact Lenses

Posted by samzenpus on from the no-more-tears dept.

Iddo Genuth writes "Scientists at the University of California, Davis, have recently designed a contact lens prototype with a built-in pressure sensor using a novel process that etches tiny electrical circuits within a soft polymer material. The new development could help glaucoma patients to measure their current risk factor, thus replacing the current methods which require constant visits to a clinician."

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  1. Re:So... by Gerafix · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm going to say some modified contacts to help soldiers kill people more efficiently. 'Cats eye' contact lenses to increase night vision (without those clumsy goggles and sensitivity to bright light...). IR contacts? That would be sweet.

  2. Re:So... by sdpuppy · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Couple the pressure signal with a slow changing colorization so that when yo blink your eyes the short term increase in pressure will cause color change (or maybe rainbow effect) that slowly goes back to normal?

    (Speaking as a person whose eye color naturally very slowly oscillates with time)

  3. What I'm really waiting for... by wiggles · · Score: 4, Interesting

    is contact lenses with built in nanoscale light sources that can project microtext and images directly onto my retinae.

  4. Big Eyes, Small Mouth by JoshDM · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Glaucoma? Medical applications? Pshaw. I'd rather hear more about the cosmetic uses of custom contact lenses.
     

    1. Re:Big Eyes, Small Mouth by Koiu+Lpoi · · Score: 2, Interesting

      I don't know man. Even as big of an anime fan as I am, there's just something unnatural looking about the big eyes (and her skin tone) in the picture in the linked article. Maybe some circles find that "adorable", but to me it just looks creepy. Personally, I think it's because the anime/manga style is a stylized caricature of reality, and trying to duplicate that back into realty tends to look... strange.

  5. Re:So... by dorianh49 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I just hope these lenses don't render the current glaucoma testing method obsolete. I love having a blast of compressed air shot at hurricane speeds directly into my wide-open eyeball. That crap makes my year.

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