The future.
In news that'll excite basically every person that wears contact lenses, scientists have created revolutionary set of lenses with the ability to zoom in on command.
Imagine being able to zoom in on someone's face if you aren't sure who they are, or read signs from huge distances away!
Well thanks to engineering scientists led by Joe Ford from the University of California San Diego in the U.S., this could soon be a reality.
The team has created a contact lens that literally zooms upon your command, purely controlled by your eye movements, pretty cool!
How did they make this happen?
The researchers estimated the electrooculographic sign produced when eyes make explicit developments (up, down, left, right, squint, twofold flicker) and made a delicate biomimetic focal point that reacts straightforwardly to those electric driving forces. The focal point made had the option to change its central length relying upon the sign created.
In this way the focal point could actually zoom in a matter of seconds.
There is no date when these will be available yet as they're just in prototype stage at the moment. Here's hoping they aren't too far off being available!
