Contact lens devices have a variety of therapeutic applications in the management of corneal diseases. A wide range of devices is available, some with very specific indications for use, including ...

Emergency department visits for medical device-associated adverse events in children are most commonly caused by contact lenses, a study found. During the 2-year study period, researchers identified ...

Researchers at the University of Washington have created a contact lens with an LED display built into it. Whilst at present the contact lens device has only a single pixel of information, the ...

A novel contact lens device developed by University of Liverpool engineers to improve the treatment of glaucoma has been found to reliably track pressure changes in the eye and be wearable by people ...

The new invention is being developed by researchers from Pohang University of Science and Technology in South Korea as an alternative to blood tests. The wireless and remotely operated lens could also ...

A hand-held contact lens device “effectively turns the anterior chamber into a cuvette,” allowing repeated measurements of drug concentrations in the eye, according to researchers in Scotland. The ...

As part of a project demonstrating new 3-D printing techniques, Princeton researchers have embedded tiny light-emitting diodes into a standard contact lens, allowing the device to project beams of ...

While Google works to bring a polished Glass device to market, wearables startup Innovega is taking head-mounted displays a step further: contact lenses that interact with full HD glasses. Nick Statt ...

Imagine a biosensing contact lens that can tell when your blood sugar is getting too low, or if there’s something wrong with one of your organs. By leveraging the power of ultra-thin transistor ...

(WLTX) - A filing on the U.S. Patent Office's website (available here) reveals a "digital" contact lens device. Simply put, this patent reveals a device that acts as a contact lens, but can take ...

Forget Sony’s planned smart contact lenses, Google has just filed a patent for a smart device that would be injected directly into your eyeball. According to the patent filing, the device would ...