Tremblay says, ‘A user can switch between normal and magnified vision…and to do this switching, you would use a pair of off-the-shelf 3D TV glasses that we have modified slightly.' The glasses act as polarizers which can block either the magnified area or the normal area. ![]() The telescope can achieve x2.8 magnification. The normal mode is at the center of the lens and the magnified area is ring-shaped and at the edges of the contact lens. This fits within the contact lens and allows the lens to have a magnified mode and a normal mode. It works by using tightly fitting mirror surfaces to make a telescope that fits within a space that is a millimeter thick. The new contact lens is made of a plastic called polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA). It was designed to be used by itself on a smartphone, or with the Parrot Teleprompter. Instead, Eric Tremblay from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland and his team including scientists from the U.S, have designed a contact lens that consists of a telescope. The Parrot Teleprompter app is easy to use, and has all the top requested features turning your smartphone into a high end professional teleprompter. Surgical implants are invasive and expensive, thus not ideal. ![]() The current solution is to use bulky glasses that have mounted telescopes or surgical implants in the eye which help to magnify the light coming into the eye onto undamaged parts of the retina. ![]() Standard contact lenses aren’t useful since they only correct for the eye’s focus but cannot help with the fact that the retina is damaged. AMD is the loss of central vision caused by retinal damage that gets worse with age. One of the main problems these new contact lenses could solve is age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
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