The Night-Lens is a night vision
contact lens developed for civilian use. The Night-Lens is designed to help people with
poor vision drive and be outside after twilight. Our contact lens is
meant to be accessible and inexpensive enough for the average person to
be able to buy it. The Night-Lens will work by merging the modern
contact lens and modern night vision. This contact lens will be helpful to
the military, because it will be as powerful as night vision
scopes and goggles used today, but the Night-Lens will be less
heavy, bulky, and more economical.
This contact lens will be made with siloxane. Siloxane lets oxygen to
the eye 25 times more than the soft lenses used today. Siloxane makes a
flexible, thin film over the eye. When using this material for contact
lenses, researchers found it attracts fats to the surface; obscuring the
wearer’s vision. Siloxane also does not wet easily, an obvious problem
for a contact lens material. But, researchers have found a way to
chemically attach a wetting agent, and we plan to add night vision to
this, thus creating a siloxane contact lens into the Night-Lens.
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