WearTec

PixelOptics is researching the development of dynamic lenses that can automatically adjust their focus, without any moving parts and without the need for multiple lenses.
This means that glasses with bifocal lenses or lenses with separate sections could be a thing of the past, because the lens would be able to automatically focus on the object you are looking at, no matter whether the object is located in the distance or in close proximity (e.g. a book)

Such lenses could then be used to give people vision better than 20/20, as contact lenses and hopefully even intra ocular lenses. This may even help people with a partly damaged or diseased retina as an intelligent lens could be used to project the visual information onto a healthy part of the retina.

How long till you can buy these lenses? PixelOptics is very careful and doesn’t mention a specific date or even a timeline. They hold however, already several patents and have additional patents pending, so hopefully they are on the right track.