A contact lens that senses rising eye pressure and automatically dispenses glaucoma medication has moved closer to reality, thanks to a design built entirely from flexible, biocompatible polymers.

Smart contact lenses may have taken a step closer to becoming reality with the invention of a wafer-thin battery with a highly unusual way of recharging. The battery is just 0.2mm thick, or twice the ...

Scientist Lee Seok Woo said a scene from a "Mission Impossible" movie inspired his latest invention: batteries for smart contact lenses. In the fourth film of the series, an agent wears contact lenses ...

Scientists have just unveiled a tiny solid-state battery measuring only several tens of cubic ...

A team of researchers at Beijing Institute of Technology, the Avic Chengdu Aircraft Design & Research Institute, and the Beijing Friendship Hospital have designed a new “smart” contact lens that could ...

One of the coolest things we've seen in movies like the Mission: Impossible series is smart contact lenses that display all sorts of cool information right in the main character's field of view. The ...

Ryan Coles leads a Hartford-based company vying to create a smart contact lens, a venture that requires specialists in engineering, materials science and ophthalmology. Coles brings something else to ...