Lasik surgery has found a direct competitor in the new discovery introduced by Canadian optometrist Dr. Garth Webb. His Ocumetrics Bionic Lens would not only give you 20/20 vision but would also give you three times better than that, according to Digital Trends.
The Ocumetrics Bionic Lens – to be implanted on a patient around the age of 25 (the age that the eyes are fully developed) – gives the wearer "super charged" vision, the publication added.
Webb illustrated that if a clock can barely be seen at 10 feet away, the Bionic Lens would allow you to it at 30 feet away.
Implanting the Bionic Lens should be a painless procedure, reports Business Insider. It would be an out-patient, no anesthesia, 8-minute procedure. Webb said it would be quite similar to a cataract surgery, where the eye lens is removed and replaced with an artificial lens, the publication said.
Folded like a taco, the Bionic Lens is placed in the eye using a syringe filled with a saline solution. Then, in about 10 seconds, the bionic lens unravels over your eye by itself and your sight is "immediately corrected," the publication added.
The Ocumetrics Bionic Lens is now under clinical trials and will be ready in two years.
"I think this device is going to bring us closer to the holy grail of excellent vision at all ranges – distant, intermediate and near," ophthalmologist Dr. Vincent DeLuise, who currently holds joint teaching positions at both Yale University and at Weill Cornell Medical College, told CBC News.
