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Implantable LCD eye lenses may make glasses obsolete

• gizmag.com

With everything from telescopic capabilities to those with built-in heads-up displays, electronically-enabled synthetic lenses promise to bring useful cybernetic enhancements to the human body. In pursuit of this goal, one researcher at the University of Leeds is developing a unique, auto-focusing liquid crystal lens that may help cure age-related long-sightedness.

Presbyopia, a condition that often occurs in people over the age of 45 years as the lenses in their eyes become stiffer and less flexible, means that many of us need reading glasses or contact lenses as we grow older. To help address this problem, Devesh Mistry, a postgraduate research student at the University of Leeds, has been conducting research on liquid crystal to produce a completely adjustable artificial lens designed to surgically replace presbyopic lenses.


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