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New Contact Lens Allows Users to Zoom by Blinking

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Wes O'Donnell
Aug 01, 2019
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Researchers at the University of California San Diego have created a lens that uses the small electrical potential of the human eyeball, called the electro-oculographic signal, to control the polymer lens.

The lens has the ability to expand when an electric current is applied and become more convex, allowing the lens to “zoom in.”

Applications are wide ra…

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