Tag: CONTACTLENS

Share The Web is teeming with the unrealized ideas of both students and established designers who set out to produce astonishing renderings and prototypes for unusual products. Unfortunately, due to the lack of time, money or technology, many of those products never progress from the planning stages to the mass market. But that doesn't mean we can't salivate over them, nevertheless. ...

The idea of injecting electronics into contact lenses is nothing new. We've already heard plenty of speculation about TV piped straight to your lenses, and scientists have already put the first displays in prototype models and tested them on rabbits. Now researchers also believe that circuits embedded in your eye-wear could monitor your health. Professor of bionanotechnology Babak Parvis, at the ...

Putting in eye drops is a pain. Applying drops into your eyes is a hard enough challenge, made even more frustrating by the fact that one mistimed blink will find you with drops streaming down your cheeks. Annoyances like this have led to bigger problems, like 59-percent of glaucoma patients not using their medicated eye drops despite the risk of going blind, Wired reports. To remedy this, ...