ROCHESTER, N.Y., May 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – More than one billion people worldwide have a vision condition called presbyopia(1), which is a natural decrease in the ability of the lens in the eye to change its shape to focus on close objects. We’ve all seen others struggle with trying to read menus and newspapers. Maybe it has even happened to you.

To combat this change in vision, which often begins around age 40, many people rely on contact lenses.  However, currently the choices for lenses that are both multifocal and daily disposable are very limited. Presbyopes have had to choose

Source: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/daily-disposable-multifocal-contact-lenses-204100827.html

Dual-focus lenses like do produce sharp images at multiple focal ranges (or, in this case, from multiple sources) — but they also produce blurred images at every focal range.

Source: http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/04/13/1856213/pentagon-orders-dual-focus-contact-lens-prototypes?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

Contact Lens Terms:

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Augmented reality contact lenses in testing with FDA

Apr 13 2012, 1:34pm CDT | by Shane McGlaun

DARPA is set to get the first

Source: http://www.i4u.com/50208/darpa-test-ioptik-contact-lenses

A South Korean eyecare company has developed Arabic-inspired gold contact lenses for Middle East customers.

Containing particles of real gold, the contact lenses were developed by South Korean company InnoVision based in Seoul.

The lenses were unveiled at Vision-X Dubai this week among the latest trends and technologies in the optical retail industry.

What make the lenses unique are the traditional Arabic-inspired designs that are embedded in them.

“We designed this product just for the Middle East market,” said Lena Lee, marketing

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“What now?” is the theme of the 2012 TEDxGR event May 10 in Grand Rapids at the Civic Theatre.

Update: 2:30 pm: LZ Granderson says ‘secret gay agenda’ is U.S. Constitution

Update 1pm: TEDx Lab: Printing 3-D objects at home is now

GRAND RAPIDS, MI — We are not far from having heads-up displays small enough to fit on a contact lens.

What does this mean?

“Anything that can be measured in blood can also be measured in tears,” said Kristin M. Tolle, director of natural

Source: http://www.mlive.com/business/west-michigan/index.ssf/2012/05/tedxgr_were_close_to_having_he.html