{"id":182411,"date":"2024-02-10T01:25:50","date_gmt":"2024-02-10T07:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/amazing-spiral-shaped-contact-lens-uses-optical-vortex-to-correct-vision"},"modified":"2024-02-10T01:25:50","modified_gmt":"2024-02-10T07:25:50","slug":"amazing-spiral-shaped-contact-lens-uses-optical-vortex-to-correct-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/amazing-spiral-shaped-contact-lens-uses-optical-vortex-to-correct-vision","title":{"rendered":"Amazing Spiral-Shaped Contact Lens Uses \u2018Optical Vortex\u2019 to Correct Vision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/amazing-spiral-shaped-contact-lens-uses-optical-vortex-to-correct-vision2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have designed a striking new contact lens that could revolutionize<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ophthalmology\"> ophthalmology<\/a>. It\u2019s based on a spiral pattern that lets the eye focus at different distances and in varying lighting conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond contact lenses, its inventors say the tech could be applied to a range of miniaturized imaging systems, including consumer gadgets like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/this-is-what-happens-when-you-spend-a-whole-week-in-vr\">virtual reality headsets<\/a>, to offer more versatility and flexibility than existing lenses.<\/p>\n<p>The lens, called a spiral diopter, causes incoming light to spin in an<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Optical_vortex\"> optical vortex<\/a>, making allowances for the various deformations in the cornea of the eye that can happen as we age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have designed a striking new contact lens that could revolutionize ophthalmology. It\u2019s based on a spiral pattern that lets the eye focus at different distances and in varying lighting conditions. Beyond contact lenses, its inventors say the tech could be applied to a range of miniaturized imaging systems, including consumer gadgets like virtual reality [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":702,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/702"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}