A Telescope for the Eye: New Contacts May Improve Sight for Macular
  Degeneration Patients
From: Medical Design Technology - 06/27/2013

Slimmed-down telescopic contact lens switches between magnified and normal
vision using a modified pair of liquid crystal eyeglasses 

A team of researchers from the United States and Switzerland, led by
University of California San Diego Professor Joseph Ford, has created a slim,
telescopic contact lens that can switch between normal and magnified vision.
With refinements, the system could offer age-related macular degeneration
(AMD) patients a relatively unobtrusive way to enhance their vision.

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http://www.mdtmag.com/news/2013/06/telescope-eye-new-contacts-may-improve-sight-macular-degeneration-patients

Links:
Joseph Ford
http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/faculty/faculty_bios/index.sfe?fmp_recid=185

Tiny telescope gives hope to those with macular degeneration
http://www.nbcnews.com/video/nightly-news/52335101/#52335101

Telescopic Contact Lens Could Help Patients with Macular Degeneration 
http://www.medicaldesignbriefs.com/component/content/article/16746

A Telescope For Your Eye: New Contact Lens Design May Improve Sight of Patients
with Macular Degeneration
http://www.osa.org/en-us/about_osa/newsroom/newsreleases/2013/a_telescope_for_your_eye_new_contact_lens_design_m/