Contact lens allows user to zoom up to three times giving a new meaning to bionic eyes

07/03/2013 - 00:00

By Sebastian Anthon -

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. Yes, this is the first ever example of a bionic eye that effectively gives you Superman-like eagle-eye vision.

As you can see in the photo above, the telescopic contact lens has two very distinct regions.

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