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I Wear My Suncontacts At Night
11:10AM Mark Wilson | Photochromic lenses that allow you to walk from inside to outside without putting on UV-filtering lenses have been around for decades. But the technology is just making its way to contacts. More »
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Forget Designer Purses, I Want Some Designer Eyeballs
1:00PM Rosa Golijan | LASIK’s been around a while, and somehow it was only a matter of time before designer vision, corneas custom-tailored to lifestyle and career, started to turn common. Could laser eye surgery will become the new graduation boob job? More »
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Stem Cell Contact Lenses Cure Blindness in Less Than a Month
4:00AM Adam Frucci | Here’s something that people with poor or no vision will be excited about: three patients had their sight restored in less than a month by contact lenses cultured with stem cells. More »
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Tiny 4mm Telephoto Lens Implant Is One Step Closer To Being in Your Eye
2:50AM John Mahoney | For people suffering from advanced macular degeneration, this lens implant magnifies light at 2.2x to 3x and projects it onto the healthy part of the retina, avoiding the damaged blind spot. More »
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Elderly Man Sees For First Time in 30 Years With Bionic Eye
3:45PM Elaine Chow | A 73-year-old man was recently given vision again after being outfitted with a “bionic eye.” After 30 years of darkness, he now can see enough to follow white lines on the road and sort socks. More »
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Eyeglasses With Fluid-Filled Sac for World’s Poor Are Instantly Adjustable
8:40AM Matt Buchanan | British Inventor Josh Silver has developer a pair of eyeglasses that are instantly adjustable. They’ve got a liquid-filled sac in the middle—add more fluid to make the glasses stronger, deflate to weaken them. More »
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Nano-Sized Semiconductor Dots Could Fix Your Terrible Vision
8:20AM Adrian Covert | New Scientist reports that researchers at the University of Colorado came up with this crazy idea that if they inject semiconductor nanoparticles in your retinas, photons will make them glow, thus improving your vision. More »
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Countact Lens Case Keeps An Eye On Your Contact’s Lifespans
12:30AM Kit Eaton | A contact lens case for disposable lenses with a built-in back-lit LCD timer with customisable delay so you know when to replace your lenses. That’s about all I need to say about Countact. The battery’s built-in, so you can’t replace it when it dies after about 3 months: but you all know you should change your case regularly no? Otherwise you’d get a nasty infection which’d mean we’d have to write Giz in BIG LETTERS so your crusty eyes could read it. A four-pack’ll cost you $US34. [Product via OhGizmo via BBG] More »
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Improved Vision Implants Rejuvenate Damaged Retinas Like Digicam Sensors For the Eye
3:40AM John Mahoney | The eye is a delicate thing. Most ocular implants that get too hands-on with your squishy sightballs cause rejections problems, but a new implant developed by the Boston Retinal Implant project shrinks the components significantly, allowing your eye to take on its cyborg enhancements without casting them off violently as unwelcome invaders. More »
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