Pop science
Aug 26, 2019
3 minutes
[ SHARMISHTA SARKAR ]
Contact lenses that can zoom in and out at a blink of an eye
WELL, TWO BLINKS ACTUALLY.
It might seem like a vision of the future, but researchers have developed a set of contact lenses that can adjust between two different prescriptions when users blink twice rapidly. And there’s a reason why you’ll need to blink twice to zoom in or out – we blink involuntarily but it’s usually just the once every few seconds. So two consecutive rapid blinks is not a bad trigger for the lenses to readjust. For those with visual impairments, this kind of medical technology
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