Name: Why We Still Don't Have Smart Contact Lenses
Uploaded: 2020-11-03T18:15:21.000Z
Duration: 6 min 35 s
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All could be possible with smart contact lenses,

Samsung, Google, and Sony have experimented

with hopes of them taking photos and video

Mike Wiemer: Whether you're a delivery person

or somebody working to put parts together,

in a eyes-up and hands-free environment is important.

Surgeons with real-time biometrics of the patient.

There are some retail prototypes that we're looking at.

Can someone be able to interact with a customer,

or just eyes up in the moment, making eye contact,

and yet know that, that thing that they're asking about,

there are actually two more back in the stockroom?

from getting these contact lenses into our eyes.

Ashley Tuan: If you asked me 10 years ago,

to put the kind of electronics you'd need in a contact lens.

Narrator: Nanotechnology for smart contact lenses

wasn't readily available until the early 2000s.

I think the most difficult part is to figure out,

how do you do engineering to put everything together?

Narrator: So, companies have to carefully consider

which type of contact lens to use as their base

with all the technology embedded inside the lens

and a wearable neck device as the processor,

with a polarizer filter that pairs with glasses

and it provides the stability once it's on eye.

Every lens, you can consider it being custom made.

because they realized that now it's easier to make,

Jerome Legerton: We started with a scleral lens,

The difficulty that was perceived was so great,

Narrator: After figuring out the manufacturing issues

Tuan: Superior performance, gas permeable.

Narrator: Which leads us to the next challenge,

is anything that could be potentially harmful.

and chemical properties of the lens material

the companies can move on to clinical trials.

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Why We Still Don't Have Smart Contact Lenses

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