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Breakthroughs in Contact Lens Technology: PC Technology
PC Technology™ is a comfort-enhancing technology developed by CooperVision, one of the world's leading manufacturers of soft contact lenses.
Introduced in 1997, PC Technology attracts and maintains moisture to reduce the risk of lens irritation. It is currently found in Proclear® products.
What Is Blink Stabilized Design in Toric Contact Lenses?
The proprietary BLINK STABILIZED Design by Johnson & Johnson works naturally with the eyelids to keep the lens in the correct position, even during head tilts, blinks, and eye movements.
What’s New in Contact Lenses: SMARTSURFACE Technology
SMARTSURFACE® Technology is a water surface technology developed by Alcon, a global leader in eye care.
Introduced in 2019 and currently found in the PRECISION1® products, SMARTSURFACE Technology is one of the many results of Alcon’s expertise in comfort-enhancing technologies.
What Is HydraGlyde Moisture Matrix?
HydraGlyde® Moisture Matrix is a proprietary contact lens wetting technology developed by Alcon, the global leader in innovative eye care. It works by attracting and retaining moisture in soft contact lenses, especially silicone hydrogel contact lenses.
HydraGlyde Moisture Matrix was first introduced in OPTI-FREE® PureMoist™ Multi-purpose Disinfecting Solution in...
What Are Aspheric Optics?
Aspheric optics is a lens design with an aspheric (non-spherical) front surface to better match the shape of the cornea and provide improved visual performance.
Aspheric optics is also thought to reduce spherical aberration — a specific type of optical aberration in which light rays passing through the periphery of the cornea and lens...
What Is Aquaform Technology?
Aquaform® Technology is an innovative material technology developed by CooperVision, a leading manufacturer of soft contact lenses. Aquaform Technology locks water molecules in the lens, resulting in a naturally hydrating lens that’s almost half water. Aquaform Technology also delivers superior breathability to keep eyes clear, white, and healthy.
Why is it important to wear breathable contact lenses?
Our organs need sufficient...
What Is Optimized Toric Lens Geometry?
Optimized Toric Lens Geometry™ is a proprietary toric lens design developed by CooperVision, a world leader in toric contact lenses for patients with astigmatism. This design is multifaceted to ensure optimal and predictable visual acuity, fit, and comfort.
Optimized Toric Lens Geometry consists of the following design features:
Uniform horizontal ISO thickness - A uniform horizontal ISO thickness improves stability...
5 Contact Lens Technologies for Long-Lasting Comfort
Discomfort is one of the most common problems for contact lens wearers. In fact, recent studies have found that discomfort is the main reason for contact lens discontinuation.
Leading manufacturers incorporate certain technologies into their contact lenses to relieve and prevent discomfort. The technologies may work in different ways, but they all provide the same thing: a comfortable lens-wearing experience...
What Is Precision Profile Design?
Precision Profile® Design is a unique lens design developed by Alcon, the global leader in eye care. It combines a bi-aspheric surface, adaptive minus power profile, and center-near design. It also allows prescription strengths to blend across the lens and work with the eyes’ natural function.
Contact Lenses With Precision Profile Design
Precision Profile Design is unique to specific multifocal contact...
What Is INFINITY EDGE Design?
INFINITY EDGE® Design is a patented lens design developed by Johnson & Johnson, a trusted name in eye care products.
INFINITY EDGE Design features a smooth, tapered edge profile and minimal edge height. It contours to the eye, providing a soft lens wear feeling. INFINITY EDGE Design also helps to maximize and maintain comfort throughout the contact lens-wearing period, even...
What Is AquaComfort Plus?
AquaComfort Plus® is a proprietary technology developed by Alcon, the global leader in eye care. It was introduced in 2008 as part of the rollout of the DAILIES® AquaComfort Plus portfolio.
AquaComfort Plus combines three wetting agents to ensure a stable pre-lens tear film. The first agent is hydroxypropyl methylcellulose (HPMC), commonly used in eye drops as a lubricant. DAILIES...
What Is LACREON Technology?
LACREON® Technology is a proprietary technology developed by Johnson & Johnson in 2006. It provides exceptional comfort all day by permanently embedding a wetting agent called polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) into the lens material. PVP is commonly used in contact lenses and eye drops to increase wettability and moisture retention.
By embedding PVP into the lens material, LACREON Technology helps to establish...
What Is MoistureSeal Technology?
MoistureSeal™ Technology is a proprietary technology developed by Bausch + Lomb, a leading global eye health company. It was introduced in 2014 and implemented in the Bausch + Lomb ULTRA product family.
MoistureSeal Technology helps the lens maintain 95 percent of its moisture for a full 16 hours, making for a comfortable contact lens-wearing experience. It was made through a...
What Is SmarTears Technology?
SmarTears® Technology is a patented technology developed by Alcon, the global leader in eye care. It is exclusive to the Dailies Total1® brand of contact lenses.
SmarTears Technology helps address contact lens-related dryness. It releases phosphatidylcholine (PC), an ingredient found in your tears. PC helps stabilize the lipid layer of your eye’s tear film, which reduces water evaporation. Without this...
What Is SmartShield Technology?
SmartShield® Technology is a patented technology developed by Alcon, the global leader in innovative eye care.
SmartShield Technology creates an ultra-thin protective layer around the outer surface of the lens to minimize the number of exposed silicon atoms at the lens surface. This helps the lens stay wet and resist irritating deposits for consistent comfort from day 1 to day...
Reading Your Contact Lens Prescription: What Does PWR Mean?
A typical contact lens prescription contains many numbers and abbreviations. One of the most important details in a lens prescription is "PWR," which stands for "power." This refers to the refractive power that your eye will need to be able to see with 20/20 vision. Simply put, "PWR" refers to the strength of your contact lens.
What Are Aspheric Contact Lenses Exactly?
Introduction
Professional eye care practitioners have been using contact lenses to aid vision problems for a long time. Typically, the contact lenses worn for everyday issues like myopia have a spherical shape. However, the usage of aspheric lenses has been around for quite some time as well, and their purpose is to increase the...
What You Need To Know About Transition Contact Lenses
You step out of your home on a sunny morning to go to work, and then suddenly, a wave of bright sunlight hits your face. To avoid the harsh light, you squint and turn your face away. It has happened to you many times before, so you know the feeling all too well—everybody does.
What is contact lens modality?
The contact lens industry is constantly innovating and advancing the technology to incorporate a massive array of products to help patients achieve a safer and more comfortable wearing experience. As a user of contact lenses, visits to an eye care practitioner means exposure to a bunch of contact lens jargon and ambiguous terminologies that can be confusing....
What Is Hydraclear Plus (As in ‘Acuvue Oasys w/Hydraclear’)? A Complete Guide
There's an unnecessary amount of mystery around buzzwords like Hydraclear, used to describe technologies embedded in your contacts (in this case from Acuvue). Are they just empty marketing terms? A lot of online resources don’t go far enough to provide context to explain what these technologies are for, why they’re important, and how they compare with others....
What is the liquid in contact lenses?
As a contact lens wearer, have you ever wondered what the liquid was in the containers each time you rip open a fresh pair of contacts? Is there a difference between the liquid in the containers and the contact lens solution liquid? What about the saline solution- how is that different? Read on as we share with...
Can contacts cause glare?
What is glare?
Does wearing contact lenses cause glare? Glare happens when too much light enters your eye and interferes with your eye’s ability to manage it. Scientifically, glare is “the loss of visual performance or discomfort produced by an intensity of light in the visual field greater than the intensity of light to...
What Is Hydraluxe Anyway (As in ‘Acuvue Oasys w/Hydraluxe’ Contacts)? A Definitive Guide
There’s a lot of confusion around buzzwords like Hydraluxe, used to describe technologies embedded in your contacts (in this case from Acuvue). A lot of the available resources online don't go far enough to provide context to explain what it’s for, why it’s important (if it is at all), how it compares to others, and even failing...
So, How Exactly Does LASIK Work? (2021 Update)
If you’re tired of wearing eyeglasses or contact lenses, you may be wondering if LASIK surgery is right for you. Whether a friend has had the surgery with successful results or you’ve read about the procedure in magazines or online, LASIK surgery seems to have a good reputation and lasting results. Although LASIK works well for many candidates, it’s...
The Future of Contact Lenses: Augmented Reality
Contact lens technology has come a long way since its humble beginnings in the late 1800s. In 1888, German ophthalmologist Adolf Gaston Eugen Fick invented the first successful scleral contact lenses, which were made of blown glass. In 1961, Czech chemist Otto Wichterle made the world’s first hydrogel contact lenses. Fast forward to 2021, and augmented reality...
Can You Wear Contact Lenses In Space?
Have you ever thought about what it takes to be an astronaut? Or wondered whether you could become an astronaut, even though you don’t have perfect vision and you wear contact lenses?
With space exploration in the news, thanks to NASA, Elon Musk, and others we dive into this exciting area as it pertains...
Hydrogel vs. Silicone Hydrogel: What Are The Differences?
The soft contact lenses available today are made of either hydrogel or silicone hydrogel. The question is: what’s the difference between these two contact lens materials?
The history of hydrogel contact lenses
In 1959, Czech chemists Otto Wichterle and Drahoslav Lím published a paper entitled “Hydrophilic Gels for Biological Use” in...
Contact Lens Camera Can Help the Blind
Always at the forefront of technological advancements, Google has applied for patents for a set of smart contact lenses. The contacts lenses, which go beyond the aesthetics of the wearable technology trend, have a medical purpose: they can help the blind “see”. The contacts, which would be embedded with a small camera and sensors, would assist the blind in...
First 3D-Printed Contact Lenses with Built-In LED
In the last few years, there’s been a lot of discussion in the tech world about wearable technology. Many experts have predicted that wearable technology is the next logical step in technological advancement. Already, technology giants such as Google and Apple have started to develop wearable technology for consumers.
Apple, for example, has recently released Apple Watch which is a...
Bionic Eyes: Implants Give Retinal Disease Patients a Second Chance
In February 2013, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System, also referred to as the bionic eye. Developed by Dr. Patrick Degenaar and his team at Newcastle University, the fake eyes are intended to help sufferers of retinitis pigmentosa, a genetic condition that affects one out of every 3,500 people in the...
Can 3D-Printed Eye Cells Cure Blindness?
The 21st century has seen the inception and growth in popularity of 3D printing. With well-known applications in architecture, manufacturing, and engineering, the technology is now increasingly being used in medicine. When combined with organic inks and thermoplastics, 3D printing technology has enabled the “bioprinting” of a range of human body parts, including 3D-printed eye cells.
A group of scientists...
Braille Contact Lens Technology Could Enable the Blind to ‘See’
Researchers in Israel are working on a special kind of contact lens that they say will could enable the blind to see. The contact lens would use the eye’s tactile sensors to give blind people the ability to “feel” shapes with their eyes, much in the same way their fingers feel Braille. The bionic contact lens would have the...
Night Vision Contact Lenses: Army’s Next Bright Future
Although night-vision goggle technology is at its peak, wouldn’t it be great if you could ditch the bulky headgear and pop in a pair of contacts? The United States Army thinks so. As the Pentagon continues to build a faster, lighter, and stronger soldier prototype, new technology in the form of night vision contact lenses could provide superior night...
Can an iPad App Help Improve Your Vision?
What if there was a way to improve your vision using a $5.99 iPad app? While it might sound too good to be true, it’s actually grounded in science. UltimEyes, an app created by neuroscientist Aaron Seitz, gives your brain a visual workout and trains you to see farther than ever before. UltimEyes works by causing brain plasticity, which...
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