Telescopic Contact Lenses Give Hope for Better, Stronger Vision
From: Wireless Design & Development - 02/13/2015

An estimated 285 million people are visually impaired worldwide. Age-related
macular degeneration alone is the leading cause of blindness among older
adults in the Western world. But this week at the AAAS Annual Meeting in San
Jose, California, Eric Tremblay from EPFL in Switzerland unveils a new
prototype of his telescopic contact lens - the first of its kind - giving
hope for better, stronger vision. The optics specialist also debuts
complementary smart glasses that recognize winks and ignore blinks, allowing
wearers of the contact lenses to switch between normal and magnified vision. 

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Links:
Wink-Control Glasses
http://www.wirelessdesignmag.com/news/2015/02/photos-day-wink-control-glasses

High-tech contact lenses zoom with a wink of an eye
http://phys.org/news/2015-02-high-tech-contact-lenses-eye.html

Telescopic contact lenses and wink-control glasses
http://phys.org/news/2015-02-telescopic-contact-lenses-wink-control-glasses.html

Telescopic Contact Lenses & Wink-Control Glasses
http://www.pddnet.com/news/2015/02/telescopic-contact-lenses-wink-control-glasses

Related:
Telescopic contact lens could improve eyesight for the visually impaired
http://phys.org/news/2013-07-telescopic-contact-lens-eyesight-visually.html

New contact lenses may improve sight for macular degeneration patients
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-telescope-eye-contact-lenses-sight.html

Bionic eyes offering better sight to blind
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-02-bionic-eyes-sight.html