I have seen the soft contact lens market accelerate in exciting ways over the past 20 years. Companies are trying to stay ahead of what patients want and for the most part, they have been doing an excellent job. Soft contact lenses that have out-performed their usefulness have been discontinued. Companies are changing their names such as Ciba Vision, now Alcon, and Vistakon, … [Read more...]
Electronic Contact Lenses and What They Can Do
Science Fiction has come of age. Tiny electronic circuits are being embedded into contact lenses that will enable them to achieve a level of sophistication that is hard to imagine. Babak Parviz is an assistant professor of electrical engineering at the University of Washington. His specialty is bio-nanotechnology. He uses techniques to integrate functional electronic devices … [Read more...]
Contact Lens Do’s and Don’ts
Contact Lenses... Opticians are generally professionally diligent when it comes to instructing patients on the proper cleaning and wearing schedule of contact lenses. Unfortunately, I believe much more of the information that patients need to safely and effectively wear contact lenses is withheld by opticians, who for whatever reason, assume the information is known or … [Read more...]