Researchers from the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland have developed contact lenses that have tiny telescopic lenses built in to boost vision. Controlled by smart glasses ...

Lights, mirrors, action! Scientists are developing smart contact lenses embedded with miniscule mirrors that can magnify your vision by almost three times. The 1.55mm-thick lenses incorporate a thin ...

Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of blindness in adults over the age of 50, and has no current cure, but scientists have developed a telescopic contact lens thin enough for ...

Interested in upgrading your eyeballs? Well, a team of DARPA-funded researchers led by Joseph Ford of UC San Diego recently published a proposal for a new type of telescopic contact lens in Optics ...

(Nanowerk News) A team of engineers has designed a telescopic contact lens that can switch between normal and magnified vision by using slightly modified off-the-shelf 3D television glasses. The ...

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have developed a prototype for telescopic contact lenses. Funded by a grant from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), UCSD ...

Critical view: Images of the switchable telescopic contact lens built by the team. The left and middle images show the front and back of the lens, respectively. The image on the right shows the lens ...

An international team of researchers have created the first telescopic contact lens; a contact lens that, when it's equipped, gives you the power to zoom your vision almost three times. Yes, this is ...

The new contact lens from the front and the back (a and b), on a fake eye (c), and with the magnifying view off and on (d and e). Photo: Tremblay et al. Putting in your contact lenses can sometimes ...

It's expected that as we age, our eyesight will go. There's no shame, and not much fuss, in adding a pair of reading glasses to your arsenal of daily accessories—or getting your lenses split into ...

An international team of researchers have created the first telescopic contact lens; a contact lens that, when it's equipped, gives you the power to zoom your vision almost three times. Yes, this is ...