(Newswire.net — May 24, 2015) — Imagine that you have never needed glasses or contact lens. Imagine that you have enjoyed perfect vision all your life. According to Ocumetics Technology Corporation, a new bio-lens could improve your vision by multiplying your sight up to three times your normal 20/20.
The “bionic” lenses would give even 100-year-olds better vision than anything currently would, IFLScience.com reported. The technology is available, but lenses are still far from commercial use.
“Freedom from glasses and contact lenses is a goal that is now a reality,” Ocumetics says on its website. According to Dr. Gareth Webb, a Canadian optometrist and Ocumetics CEO, the scientists have been working on the project for eight years and spend around $3 million.
“This is vision enhancement that the world has never seen before. If you can just barely see the clock at 10 feet, when you get the Bionic Lens you can see the clock at 30 feet away,” Dr. Webb, inventor of the “button-shaped” lens, told CBC.
According to Dr. Web, the procedure is similar to cataract surgery. It involves removing your original lens and replacing it with an Ocumetics’ Bionic Lens, which is folded into a syringe in a saline solution and injected directly into your eye.
Natural lenses decay over time, but new bionic lens Dr. Webb and his team developed is decay resistant allowing super-vision to last a lifetime.
After he presented his lens to a group of leading ophthalmologists in San Diego earlier last month, Dr. Webb told CBC that responses have been positive, with some eager to get involved in clinical trials.
According Dr. Vincent DeLuise, an ophthalmologist who teaches at Yale University, “There’s a lot of excitement about the Bionic Lens from very experienced surgeons who perhaps had some cynicism about this because they’ve seen things not work in the past.”
“They think that this might actually work and they’re eager enough that they all wish to be on the medical advisory board to help him on his journey,” Dr. DeLuise told CBC.
If they do pass those all-important clinical trials, the Bionic Lens would make contacts lenses, glasses and laser surgery unnecessary, Webb says, adding that the lenses could be available in two years.