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LED Cases Tell You When to Change Contact Lenses

by Tim Stevens on November 4, 2008 at 05:09 PM

Digital Lens Cases Tell You When to Change Contacts
There comes a time in every disposable contact lens' life when it must move along to the big eyeball in the sky; when it's so slime-encrusted and foggy that the only thing it should be seeing is the inside of a trash-bin. If you have a hard time remembering just when it's time to break open a fresh pair, Countact is for you.

It's a simple enough product, a contact dish that has a digital timer in the middle. It counts down from anywhere between 14 and 30 days (based on your settings), giving you a display of the remaining life of your lenses. When it hits zero, a beeper starts chiming and then you'll know what you have to do. $35 for four seems like a pretty good deal -- the only catch is that the things only last for a paltry three months and, once the built-in battery is dead, it's time to toss the thing and get another. That's hardly environmentally friendly -- but then again, neither are disposable contacts. [From: Latest Buy, via Boing Boing]

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