Smart contact lenses for people with the disease presbiopi

INOVATION, FIND TEKNO - Innovation in contact lens technology began to develop researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. Smart contact lens was even able to help people with the disease Presbyopia.

As reported Dailymail, Wednesday (03/16/2016), University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher named Hongrui Jiang has designed a contact lens technology innovation inspired by the ability of fish eyes to focus the view to a certain distance in a few milliseconds.

Hongrui Jiang developed a contact lens technology innovation in order to help people with Presbyopia. Presbyopia is a disease resulting in hardening of the eye lens can not focus on objects at near distance.

According to Jiang, the disease already affects more than one million people worldwide, almost half are not aware of her illness.

While eye glasses, contact lenses and surgery can reduce this disease. However, Jiang said any help that makes the eyes vulnerable to changes in light, too sensitive to light, even can not see well at night.

Hongrui Jiang gradually continue to make adjustments to the cornea and the eye lens to be used on different eye shapes.

Hongrui Jiang and his team made contact lens super technological innovation by planting some transparent solar powered computers small and miniature electrical circuit. Two of these tools are designed to be entered in the contact lens soft textured and flexible.

The researchers wanted to technological innovation the smart contact lens that can be worn comfortably. The research team focused on designing an image sensor size is very small and is able to capture images in dark places with little obvious.

Hongrui Jiang is actually inspired by the elephant nose fish eyes. Elephant nose fish have eyes that can see clearly in a muddy that have low light intensities.

Jiang and his team tested the technology innovation of contact lenses using a mechanical eye yng designed in their lab. They also tested the results of the vision lenses with a trickle of oil and water.

When drip with these two liquids, the eye's lens that makes a kind of protection from multiple electrodes. This protector is able to separate some of the components of the liquid so as to give a clearer view. With this tenik, the eye's lens can see objects amounted to 20 micrometer very clearly.