Sure, these contact lenses aren’t bionic eyes, but they offer an intriguing development nonetheless. ... or tinkering with something on his computer. Joshua Hawkins's latest stories.

While Google works to bring a polished Glass device to market, wearables startup Innovega is taking head-mounted displays a step further: contact lenses that interact with full HD glasses.

While night vision goggles, with which one can also see infrared light, have been around for a long time, these contact lenses boast a few key advancements.For one, they don’t need a power ...

Combining regular lens technology with nanoparticles, researchers have created prototypes of contact lenses that allow people to see in the dark — and through their eyelids.

The contact lens technology uses nanoparticles that absorb infrared light and convert it into wavelengths that are visible to mammalian eyes (e.g., electromagnetic radiation in the 400–700 nm ...

Temperature Self-Compensating Intelligent Wireless Measuring Contact Lens for Quantitative Intraocular Pressure Monitoring. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces , 2024; 16 (17): 22522 DOI: 10.1021 ...

In an effort to diagnose glaucoma, a condition that can cause vision loss, earlier, researchers have developed contact lenses with sensors that measure the pressure inside the eye and send the ...

The lens is round like a conventional contact lens but it has a neatly coiled spiral created with a lathe on its surface. This spiral shape modifies the path that light rays take through the lens ...

In the future, by working together with materials scientists and optical experts, we hope to make a contact lens with more precise spatial resolution and higher sensitivity.” Cell, 2025. DOI: 10 ...

Contact lenses are, clearly, a less invasive option. A researcher helps a study participant put in a contact lens. Yuqian Ma, Yunuo Chen, Hang Zhao. The researchers tested the new lenses on mice, too.