Smart sensors will help the smart lens determine when not to bother you, such as when you’re reading a book, focused on work, or driving, says Steve Sinclair a former Apple executive who is now Mojo’s senior vice president for product and marketing. The idea is you won't look weird to the outside world either. The company is pushing the concept of “invisible computing,” where you have the data you want when you want it but are not otherwise bombarded with or distracted by data you don't need. The FDA did grant Mojo Lens a “Breakthrough Device” designation, which is likely to fast-track the process through clinical trials and such.Īnd Mojo announced a partnership with the non-profit Vista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired in Palo Alto. Mojo is working closely with the Food and Drug Administration, which must give its final approval – the lenses are classified as medical devices. Lest you freak out about placing electronics in your eye, the company says the whole system is safe and won't consume much power, with the tiny radio inside transmitting microwatts that are many orders of magnitude smaller than any of your mobile phones or other devices. The contacts will be custom-fitted and prescribed by a regular optometrist or eye doctor.īut the Mojo Lens also contains a teeny 14K-ppi display, which Mojo Vision claims as the smallest, densest display ever designed for such a purpose.
You’d be able to use normal saline eye drops.
It is commonly prescribed for those with irregular corneas or dry eyes. Suffice it to say, there's no way to tell at this point how comfortable they are, but these are standard scleral-type lenses that use rigid and gas-permeable materials and other polymers that in theory anyway should make them feel the same in your eye as similar non-smart lenses. A scleral lens is designed to vault over the cornea and rest on the “white” of the eye (the sclera). I found it more challenging than learning a new computer mouse. In one case, I wore a VR-type headset that gave me the experience of selecting menus and items on the screen, initially by keeping my head steady while my eye peered off into the periphery. Women of the Century: Who inspires you? USA TODAY seeks your Women of the Century to commemorate 19th Amendment Now, I didn’t actually wear the contacts Mojo set up other elaborate ways for me to “look through” the lenses. The lenses also promise to help anyone struggling with low-vision impairments, and during one of my demos, I was able to make out people and objects in a darkened room. Seeing in the darkĮventually, though, the hope is that any consumer will be able to wear versions, even those of you who don’t necessarily need to correct poor eyesight. One of the lead investors is Google's Gradient Ventures Google parent Alphabet had worked on then halted a project involving a glucose-oriented smart contact lens.Ĭommercial availability for the Mojo Lens is likely about two years away, with the more immediate use cases in the enterprise space: areas such as retail, medicine, public safety and hospitality. The patented lenses are still a prototype under development, from a venture-backed Silicon Valley startup called Mojo Vision. In an off-site hotel room during last week’s CES trade show in Las Vegas, I was treated to an early demonstration of Mojo Lens, billed as the world’s first “true smart contact lens." (The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency or DARPA has reportedly shown interest in a smart contact lens developed by the IMT Atlantique engineering firm in France.) What you’re wearing instead is something way more inconspicuous and straight out of “Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol” – a pair of smart corrective contact lenses that you can control with subtle eye movements and gestures. You might think I’m describing Google Glass or some other kind of bionic spectacles visible to the outside world. Or maybe the name and title of the person you’re about to run into. You may discreetly see your heart rate, glucose reading, a weather forecast, real-time translation or map. Someday when you walk down the street, an augmented user interface will appear like a floating screen above your real-life surroundings. Watch Video: 'Smart' contact lens for the future in the works for startup Mojo Lens
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