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A glance to the left. A flick to the right. As my eyes flitted around the room, I moved through a virtual interface only visible to me—scrolling through a calendar, looking up commute times home, and even controlling music playback. It's all I theoretically need to do to use Mojo Lens, a smart contact lens coming from a company called Mojo Vision.
The California-based company, which has been quiet about what it's been working on for five years, has finally shared its plan for the world's "first true smart contact lens." But let's be clear: This is not a product you'll see on store shelves next autumn. It's in the research and development phase—a few years away from becoming a real product. In fact, the demos I tried did not even involve me plopping on a contact lens—they used virtual reality headsets and held up bulky prototypes to my eye, as though I was Sherlock Holmes with a magnifying glass.
Source: https://www.wired.com/story/mojo-vision-smart-contact-lens/
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Nuke on Tuesday January 21 2020, @08:24PM (2 children)
Tolerance of contact lenses varies greatly with the individual. It is better to have naturally "wet" eyes.
I have worn them for years and have no more trouble with dust than about once a month (about the same as if I did not wear them?), and I do a lot of practical outdoor stuff. Taking care of them is putting them in soaking solution each night (~30 seconds), and putting them into my eyes each morning (~60 seconds). Once a week I change the soaking solution (~60 seconds). I wear reading glasses "over the top" of the contact lenses for close work, and I spend more time cleaning those glasses in total than I spend on caring for the contact lenses.
I wear hard contact lenses, but I believe soft lenses do require more care, are more expensive, and optically inferior. Newbies seem to prefer soft lenses as they are quicker to acclimatise to.
I'd put contact lenses among the greatest handful of inventions of all time, up there with anesthetics and the wheel. From fuzzy vision when I get up in the morning, things suddenly become crystal clear, like a New Testament miracle, and once in, unlike glasses, I am completely unaware of their presence. Contact lenses are optically superior to glasses because in effect they change the front refractive surface of the cornea to what it should be, OTOH glasses change the light rays en-route at a distance from that surface.
As for putting a display into them - no way, even if it were ever possible which I highly doubt. As someone else said, a "flick to the left" etc would not work because the lenses move with the eye, and even if it did it would be a recipe for eye ache. I can't even grasp what the point of it would be.
(Score: 2) by coolgopher on Wednesday January 22 2020, @06:47AM
Personally I much prefer to put in my contact lenses before going to sleep, and take them out in the morning.
No joke [allaboutvision.com].
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 22 2020, @06:59AM
Never could poke myself in the eye, will just have to wait for brain implant. Will also have to wait for qdvertising being a thing.