Permanent Lenses in Sight
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A permanent, implantable contact lens that can dramatically improve vision in patients with severe nearsightedness is expected to receive FDA approval within days.
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Prototypes People suffering from loss of peripheral vision may soon be able to replace the canes they use to sweep the sidewalk for obstacles with eyeglasses that show them what lies beyond the limits of their vision. The glasses may also lead to technologies that enable the legally blind to return to driving their cars.
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BOFFINS AND boffinettes at Imperial College London are developing a new optical disk that can store a terabyte of data. The Multiplexed Optical Data Storage (Mods)technology is expected to be released towards
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Myopia linked to modern life? Also in this week's column:â¦
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There's a new option for people who suffer from extreme nearsightedness, whose world loses its crisp edge just a few inches from their noses. The first implantable lens for nearsightedness was approved Monday by the Food and Drug Administration.
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A new method for creating metamaterials that bend light in unusual ways may have brought practical applications closer.
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Crossing the road may soon be as straightforward -- and safe -- for blind and visually impaired people as it is for someone with good eyesight, thanks to a new device that acts as an &quot;electronic eye.
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A tiny electrical implant that attaches to the retina may someday restore partial sight to millions of patients blinded by age-related macular degeneration, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.
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SAN DIEGO ---- The batter&#39;s eye in baseball is the device that prevents hitters from losing sight of the tiny white pill emerging from a pitcher&#39;s hand amid the swarm of distracting motions beyond the outfield fence.
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Implantable contact lenses are a safe and effective way to correct moderate to high nearsightedness, says a study in the September issue of Ophthalmology.
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The Lensbaby 3G might look like a mini-hibachi grill, but it actually creates odd images by allowing the point of focus to be selected anywhere in a scene.
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Genetic breakthroughs and an unlikely drug offer hope for a disease ravaging the eyes of an aging population.
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By Martha McKay, The Record, Hackensack, N.J.  Feb. 8--3D IMAGES THAT FOOL THE EYE IN DAZZLING, DELIGHTFUL, DRAMATIC  WAY: Imagine a 3D image that floats and moves in the air.   No special glasses needed, either.
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New research suggests that rigid gas permeable contact lenses may help slow the progression of nearsightedness, or myopia, in young children.
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NEW YORK  - A new approach that permits   wider visual perception in patients with severely restricted   peripheral field allows quicker and more accurate ability to   detect objects outside their field of vision, suggest results   of a pilot study.
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Smaller image sensors change lens behavior on an SLR. Here's a look at one consequence, depth of field.
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Superdense arrays of silicon electrodes will bring scientists closer to an artificial retina that approximates normal vision.