Crazy fashion accessory

First it was tattoos, then it was body piercing, but the latest fashion craze looks so painful it's literally eye-watering.
A Dutch designer has come up with a bizarre fashion accessory – eye jewelery that hangs from wire attached to a contact lens.

Eric Klarenbeek has created the eye jewellery that includes items like crystals or flowers.

It hangs beneath the eye, and is fastened to the lens by medical wire. It makes the wearer look as if they are crying.
I feel sad for the models who have to wear these....

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Contact Lens + Surgery

You have heard of contact lenses. You have heard of surgery to correct for glasses like Lasik.



Here is a new procedure where a contact lens is implanted surgically into the front part of the eye called Cornea.

"It can take someone who is 22,000- someone who is so unbelievably nearsighted one day- next day drive without glasses," said eye surgeon Dr. Roy Rubinfeld.

The hour long procedure is most effective in patients between ages 25 and 45 and meant to be permanent. Cornea surgeon, Dr. Marwa Adi, says permanent contact lens should deliver optically "as long as the eye stays healthy."

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Smart contact lens feels the pressure of glaucoma

New Scientist reported, "A contact lens with a built-in pressure sensor that could help monitor" certain eye conditions was recently designed by scientists at the University of California-Davis. Using polydimethylsiloxane, "an elastic, transparent, and gas-permeable organic polymer," the researchers produced "a tiny pressure sensor, which they bent into the shape of a contact lens. Such a device could measure the stress on the cornea surface, and the fluid pressure within the eye to monitor glaucoma and ocular hypertension." Researcher Tingrui Pan explained that in glaucoma patients, rising pressure within the eye changes its shape, "which would deform the contact lens sensor." A prototype model "has an opaque sensor that would impair vision, and so would be worn only briefly," but the research team is "designing transparent equivalents that could be worn for long periods to give a continuous pressure read-out."

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High Tech Contacts

Researchers @ the University of Washington have reported a system that would generate graphic displays directly to eyes.

Illinois ABC affiliate WHOI-TV reported that researchers "are trying to find ways to incorporate complex technology into" contact lenses. One "device under development, referred to as a 'bionic lens,' or 'e-lens,' integrates a miniature electronic circuit and LED lights between layers of polyethylene terephthalate. It's powered through radiofrequency energy transmitted to an antennae incorporated into the lens." This would allow "[c]omputer images [to] be sent to the circuit, enabling the wearer to see virtual displays." It would also allow "a wearer to play games, or surf the" Internet, "without the need for a display monitor."

The prototype contact lens - which will eventually contain LEDs - has yet to be powered up. That key step, says Parviz, is several months off. "We're looking at two different ways to transmit power. One is radio frequency power transmission. We need antennae on these contact lenses anyway because we need to transmit data to them. The other way we're looking at right now is to incorporate photovoltaic [solar] cells."

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