Vision is a cornerstone of daily life; perfect vision is one of life’s great pleasures. Beyond forty five years of age, most people cope with visual disability of one form or another.
The Ocumetics Bionic Lens would be an option for someone who depends on corrective lenses and is over about age 25, when the eye structures are fully developed. This Bionic Lens will improve your vision three times better than 20/20 vision .
Dr. Garth Webb, who is the CEO of Ocumetics Technology, has spent the last eight years and about $3 million for researching and developing the Ocumetics Bionic Lens, for giving perfect vision to the patients with vision problems.
According to him, with the Bionic Lens, perfect eyesight would result “no matter how crummy your eyes are”.
The procedure for implanting the bionic lens is similar to cataract surgery. The lens is surgically inserted into the eyes through a syringe. The lens is folded in a saline-filled syringe and placed inside the eyes. The whole process takes 8 minutes in total and the person gets a perfect vision immediately after the operation.
“This is vision enhancement that the world has never seen before. If you can just barely see the clock at 10 feet, when you get the Bionic Lens you can see the clock at 30 feet away,” Webb said in the Canadian Press.
Alongside his Bionic Lens venture, Webb has set up a foundation called the Celebration of Sight, which would donate money to organizations providing eye surgery in developing countries to improve people’s quality of life.
“Perfect eyesight should be a human right,” he says.
Ocumetics Technology Corp claims the camera technology in the lens is able to produce three-dimensional visual landscapes in optical images that have been naturally formatted and with no time delay, eyestrain or headache.
By being able to offer 3D images directly to the eye, Webb hopes that the technology can be used for other applications, such as to create headsets that could replace mobile devices, TVs and computer display monitors.
Many are keen to participate in clinical trials on animals and blind humans that are coming soon, and depending on regulatory processes in each country, Webb hopes the Bionic Lens will be commercially available by 2017.
