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Good Article from Optometry Times for smart contact lenses.

"The companies behind smart contact lenses are staying quiet about their work, but we know that applications include health monitoring, medical treatment for allergy and burns, invisible computing and enhancing vision. The future of optometry includes the utilization of smart contact lenses for allergy, glaucoma, AMD, OSD, and more.

What is the IQ of a contact lens? Does the term “smart” contact lens mean the lens thinks? I went looking for a definition of the so-called “smart” contact lens and found a wide variety of meanings. But the one that I think sums up the best overall definition is this: “A smart contact lens means putting rigid, non-see-through components onto a lens that will be in direct contact with the eye.”1

Smart contact lenses can act as medical devices, health trackers or gauges, and audio and video recorders. In addition, the possibility is being explored of using smart contact lenses to perform as a computer."......................

Optometry Times