We all know that blindness is a disease which affects many people around the world. It’s a very sad thing that this happens and IMO it’s very hard for a person to deal with this kind of disorder. All we can do is to find ways to cure long and short sighted people, but we are not that smart to do that so we leave it to researchers who know better.
Cataract is an eye disorder which can be partially fixed with artificial lenses and other disorders can be treated with laser surgeries, but then again the vision is not restored forever. However, thanks to some breakthroughs, long and short sighted people can be cured with bionic lens.
Don’t think that these new and futuristic artificial lens are far from becoming a reality as researchers are claiming that it could happen in about five years time.
Professor James Wolffsohn, at the Aston University, is working on flexible bionic lens that could restore vision to long and short sighted people. He worked with several companies and he is very confident that the flexible lenses will replace the “bad” lens of the human eye for less than £1,000.
This is a very small amount, however, not everyone could afford it, but the most important part is that the bionic lens to work great and hopefully, blindness will be cured forever.
September 18th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
This will be wonderful if developed.
However, it is not a “Cure for Blindness” as the
article title inaccurately states.
September 18th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
the image and the text are misleading - the image is of one kind of technology the text describes another. the new lensing technology is a flexible len inserted in the eye to replace the original lens. it is flexible enough to provide proper vision using to the best of my knowledge your own eye muscles to operate it. the problem with long/short sightedness is the reduction in flexibility of the original lense. the contacts pictured are electronic “displays” for the blind and will be some time before they have HD ability. And the human eye @3-500 mpixels is HD!
September 19th, 2008 at 4:51 am
Blindness won’t be “cured forever” because of this, not least because injuries to the vision-processing center of the brain can’t be fixed by such a solution.
September 19th, 2008 at 6:48 am
I think that contact lens is in a dogs eye