Gone are the days when contact lenses were mere vision correcting medical devices. With companies like Samsung, Sony, Google, Medella and many more, investing millions of dollars on research and development of smart lenses that would change our perspective and the way we see the world around us. Smart contact lenses will give us superhero abilities and an unprecedented confidence to accomplish new heights and encourage us to set higher goals for ourselves. A few years back, this idea was laughed at as science fiction but it is going to be a scientific revolution and fact.
What are Smart Contact Lenses?
Just like your
basic vision correcting, cheap colored contact lenses, smart lenses will inherit
the features of their predecessors. Easy to handle and won’t require any
surgery, they will sit on your eyeballs but unlike the older counterparts they
will change the way you perceive the world. They will enhance human aptitudes,
skills and propensities and surge them to a whole new level. The main focus is
to achieve Augmented Reality to initiate an interface of human eye and
computer-like features. In the not-so-distant future there would be endless
possibilities to explore and the world will revise around us.
Smart contact
lenses will be laced with many micro technologies such as Auto-focusing,
Bluetooth, display, battery, CPU, tear film, Radio and many more advancements
that would be just mind-blowing and awe-inspiring. Imagine having the ability
to zoom in on anything by just enlarging your eyes, taking pictures by blinking
your eyes, scrolling down your playlist by moving eyes, checking your
appointments, glancing at the phone without holding it. The possibilities are
endless; making them the most anticipated invention of the modern times.
What can Smart Contact Lenses do for us?
Even though
lenses are revolutionized and made into a micro-computer they are still lenses
and they must do something extraordinary to correct the vision problems. Well,
good news is, they will treat eye problems and infection like never before. Eye
conditions like myopia, cataracts, glaucoma can all be treated with Smart
contact lenses. Not just that, they can also make us see in the dark with
clearness, isn’t that amazing!
Smart contact
lenses are not only for sharpening your vision they are designed to do far more
than that. Designed to monitor other health issues as well, especially blood
glucose levels without invasion. They will indicate when blood sugar reaches an
unhealthy level. Smart lenses will also be able to keep eye allergies like
redness and itchiness at bay as they will be pre-loaded with drops that would
evade allergens. Smart lenses are designed to give us relief from digital
strain by having aspheric curves that would aid the eyes to adapt between
digital and real world. They have another, these lenses are designed to retain
moisture and keep the eyes humid. Smart phone control is another futuristic
idea that is being researched and we will soon be clicking pictures and scrolling
down screens with our eyes.
All these are
common consumer benefits but look at the larger picture, imagine what they can
do for a doctor, for police and army operations. Many of the things are far
from consumer reach and are just ideas which will take years to get perfect and
fit for human use, but we can say this with confidence that the future is
bright!
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