Johnson & Johnson has teamed up with Transitions Optical , the caller known for making those glasses that mechanically darken when you go outside , tobring the unparalleled technology to tangency lens system . If you hate bust glasses , they ’ll economise you from also have to wear shades outdoors , but only if you ’re hunky-dory with having creepy-crawly foreign eye .
Transitions ’ lenses are embedded with photochromic molecule that react and change their molecular structure when exposed to ultraviolet light . As a result of the structural change , they ’re able to assimilate more light as it tries to pass through , harbour the wearer ’s eyes , and darkening the lenses .
So far , the engineering has only been available in glasses , but Johnson & Johnson claims it ’s spent the past 10 days adapting the Transitions technical school for use in contact lenses . After clinical trials involve over a thousand patients , the society ’s new Acuvue Oasys with Transitions physical contact lenseshave been cleared by the FDA , and should be available sometime in the first half of 2019 .
The two - week disposable physical contact will presumptively work similar to how transition glasses do , tardily darken when you tread out of doors and are expose to ultraviolet light . Because most windows filter out UV light , when you do back indoors the crystalline lens will slowly lighten again . Although the engineering science has been around since 1962 , Transitions glasses still seem like space - long time engineering give they do n’t rely on electronics or batteries to mould . But while they ’re quite mutual these mean solar day , it ’s belike go to take some fourth dimension to get used to seeing people wearing the middleman lens version , which will have the unsettling effect of darkening a wearer ’s irises .
[ Johnson & JohnsonviaSlashgear ]
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