#Contact lens

Author: WIRED Staff / Source: WIRED After months of anticipation and fevered speculation by supporters and critics alike, the public finally laid eyes on the most important release of the past 25 years, its secrets guarded by a famously tight-lipped team up until the very end. That’s right,

Author: Tom Nardi / Source: Hackaday They say that necessity is the “Mother of Invention”, but over the years we’ve started to suspect that her cousin might be an underutilized microcontroller. How else can you explain projects like the latest from [MN Maker], which takes the relatively simple

Source: Good News Network A 28-year-old Canadian inventor has developed a specialized set of contact lenses that can correct color blindness. Gabrielle Masone first became inspired to design the lenses based on her own experience with vision problems as a child. After studying chemistry in

Author: Lindsey Konkel / Source: Science News for Students If you wear contact lenses, you might not know the best way to discard old ones. Hint: Washing them down the sink or flushing them down the toilet are not the way to go. Yet one in five people who wear contacts do just that. The bad news:

People lose contact lenses in their eyes all the time, but generally speaking, they make sure they find it and remove it from their eye within a day or two. That’s most people. However, one woman lost her contact lens and it was in her eye for 28 years. Let me repeat: A whole contact lens in her