Yesterday’s post featured a video that demonstrated the capabilities of the iOptik contact lens. Specifically, it showed the ability of a lens to simultaneously focus on both extreme distance and near objects. The idea is to use such a lens to allow wearers to view multimedia displays inside their eyewear.
Today’s video features contact lenses used in a slightly different way. It’s no surprise that contacts with embedded circuitry are being developed, and the video shows a few uses already in the works. One type of lens can monitor the eye pressure of people with glaucoma. Another can monitor the blood sugar of people with diabetes. Still others can slowly dispense medicine and even allow wearers to view multimedia displays right before their eyes.
The eye doctors and staff at LaFollette Eye Clinic look forward to the day when contact lenses do so much more for the vision and health of our patients. Thanks to the Pittsburgh affiliate of CBS for the video. There’s a commercial, but the video’s worth the wait:
