Did you ever wish that you could use something similar to what Jeremy Renner used for copying those nuclear codes in the Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol?
Then you also might have noticed that there was a shooting star when you wished that, because guess what, the scientists have created a contact lenses that are similar to that.
Though it might not be able to create instant Xerox copies of the things that you see, it will surely help you magnify the things you could not see. For instance, if you are having trouble seeing a sign across the street, all you would have to do, is wink your right eye and it will zoom in.
The impeccable research team from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology who created this pair of contact lenses that can zoom up to 2.8x than the normal vision.
According to Elite Daily, the contact lens is 1.5mm thick. The primary reason behind the development of these types of lenses, is to assist people with aging eyes or macular degeneration. The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology has been working on these lenses since 2013.
The bitter part about these lenses, is that they are not made out of the soft lenses that are popular. In fact, they are rigid lenses.
But that's the not the question that you might be having right now. The question you are asking yourself, is "what if these lenses are not smart enough to distinguish between my normal blinks and the winks? My whole world would be messed up if that happened."
The answer to that question is - Yes. These lenses are smart enough to register between your normal blinks and the conscious winks that will allow you to have a zoomed view.
The exciting part is the convenience. If you want to zoom in, just wink your right eye. And if you want to zoom out, just wink your left eye.
The technology behind these amazing contact lenses relies upon polarization and aperture. These words might be familiar if you've worked with a camera.
The research team writes "The contact lens allows one type of polarization in the 1x aperture and another in the 2.8x aperture. Thus, the user sees the view where the polarization of the glasses and contact lens aperture match."
The researchers are still working on optimizing the contacts to make it more usable in the practical world because it reduces the oxygen flow to the eyes. They believe that inventions like these are the ones that will open doors for future inclusion of technology into our daily life.
What do you think? Would you purchase these contacts if they did not have any side effects and you have prescriptions?
