By Eyizle Ene-Okon
10:10pm
Dr. Garth Webb holds a bionic lens he developed on the tip of his
finger. He says inserting it would be a painless procedure, identical
to cataract surgery, that would take about eight minutes. A patient’s
sight would be immediately corrected. Darryl Dyck/Canadian Press
Imagine being able to see three times better than 20/20 vision without
wearing glasses or contacts — even at age 100 or more — with the help
of bionic lenses implanted in your eyes.
Dr. Garth Webb, an optometrist in British Columbia who invented the
Ocumetics Bionic Lens, says patients would have perfect vision and
that driving, progressive and contact lenses would become a dim memory
as the eye-care industry is transformed.
Webb says people who have the specialized lenses surgically inserted
would never get cataracts because their natural lenses, which decay
over time, would have been replaced.
Perfect eyesight would result “no matter how crummy your eyes are,”
Webb says, adding the Bionic Lens would be an option for someone who
depends on corrective lenses and is over about age 25, when the eye
structures are fully developed.
“This is vision enhancement that the world has never seen before,” he
says, showing a Bionic Lens, which looks like a tiny button.
“If you can just barely see the clock at 10 feet, when you get the
Bionic Lens you can see the clock at 30 feet away,” says Webb,
demonstrating how a custom-made lens that folded like a taco in a
saline-filled syringe would be placed in an eye, where it would
unravel itself within 10 seconds.
Culled from Cbc news
