An international team of researchers have created the first telescopic contact lens; a contact lens that, when it's equipped, gives you the power to zoom your vision almost three times.

The new contact lens is made of a plastic called polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA). It works by using tightly fitting mirror surfaces to make a telescope that fits within a space that is a millimeter ...

Scientists are developing smart contact lenses embedded with miniscule mirrors that can magnify your vision by almost three times. The 1.55mm-thick lenses incorporate a thin reflective telescope ...

Prototype telescopic contact lenses may one day help sufferers of age-related macular degeneration (Photo: Eric Tremblay and Joe Ford/ EPFL) View 4 Images 1 / 4 ...

See here now: Telescopic contact lenses and wink-control glasses Date: February 13, 2015 Source: Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Summary: Optics specialist Eric Tremblay from EPFL in ...

Scientists are developing smart contact lenses embedded with miniscule mirrors that can magnify your vision by almost three times. The 1.55mm-thick lenses incorporate a thin reflective telescope ...

That's why Tremblay and a team of optics researchers at EPFL are working on telescopic contact lenses designed for daily use. Inside the contact lenses are minuscule mirrors arranged to more or ...

Now a team of multinational researchers led by University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Professor Joseph Ford has created a telescopic contact lens that can switch between normal and magnified ...

Critical view: Images of the switchable telescopic contact lens built by the team. The left and middle images show the front and back of the lens, respectively. The image on the right shows the lens ...

Researchers have created contact lenses which, when paired with special spectacles, bestow telescopic vision on their wearers. The contact-lens-and-spectacles combination magnifies scene details ...