A stunning example of the Speed at which the Technology travels is revealed by the Lens that uses Electronic circuits, invented by the Engineers at University of Washington, this electronic lens prove to be a better solution to visually affected people.

It is not a story or a fiction; it’s the dream coming true. The Engineers have invented contact lens with the imprinted electronic circuit engaged in microscopic scales. The Lens made is more flexible than ordinary and biologically safe.

The scientists tell that they have been designed to aid the visually impaired people in a better way. Babak Parviz, an Assistant Professor of electrical Engineering at University of Washington is sure that these lenses create a new generation of contact lens. He also added that these lenses would help the people to see the Outside world superimposed of the images.

The scientists behind the electronic lens argue that there are also many uses which will come to light only when the people start using it. Harvey Ho is the Co-Author of this technology, a former graduate student of Parviz’s now working at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, Calif and Ehsan Saeedi and Samuel Kim. This lens was presented at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ international conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems held on January 18th 2009.

The application of these lenses is not scaled minimum. The engineers who are responsible for the development of the lens claim that the application is very wider and technologically higher in scope in today’s world. Not only for Pilots and drivers used to see the high speed projected vehicles but also used for the Gaming industry professionals who can virtually track the animated images. Electronic Lenses are characterized with two most important features:

(1) These are Human Friendly such that the person wearing do not realize about the e presence of lens in their eyes.

(2) Lenses are very easy in pop nature in and out.

As a Testing session of these lenses, it was tried with the rabbits. The Electronic Lenses were applied to the eyes of the rabbits for 20 minutes and the result was very positive for the Engineers worked on it. Rabbits does not show any changed behavior. They were as normal before. Lenses also contain Light Emitting Diodes along with the electronic circuits. But at the testing session these Light emitting diodes did not light up. The Engineers behind the lens accept the fact that it is not so easy to build such electronic lens, since eyes are very sensitive when compared to other parts of the body. The manufacturing process involves the usage of the Inorganic substance, Electronic circuits and also other chemicals which are not very sensitive to the nature of the human eyes. Engineers uses the metal of about one – thousand width of the human hair , approximately nanometer of thickness and the light emitting diodes of about one-third of the metre length. Self assembly technique is used to create tiny marvels. Design is made considering two aspects:

(1) The normal vision of the person without any aid is not affected.

(2) These lenses will only increase the vision capacity of the individual and do not make any approximations according the power of their eyes.

The Engineers still call it as a Corrective Lens even though it is technologically advance. The Next Step in the Lens is that Scientists are on their way to produce Wireless Communication Technology through the contact Lens. The full usage of these lenses will not be available soon but the engineers are highly confident that they will make it as soon as possible.

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