But what if I want them black? That looks totally hot.
http://gizmodo.com/5401364/i-wear-my-suncontacts-at-night
Photochromic lenses that allow you to walk from inside to outside without putting on UV-filtering lenses have been around for decades. But the technology is just making its way to contacts.
Traditionally, these light-to-dark lenses have been constructed by coating a normal lens with a photochromic dye. When UV light hits the dye, the individual molecules expand, darkening the lens and absorbing light. Coating contacts, however, doesn’t work so well.
So researchers in Singapore have laced contacts with a matrix on nano tunnels filled with these photochromic dyes. Not only has the team been successful in producing transition contacts; these contacts darken in the presence of UV light faster than standard lenses (just 10 to 20 seconds).
Researchers are now working on isolating the photochromic material to just corneal region of your eye, granting you all of the UV filtering without turning your entire iris black.
I have a friend who damaged his eyes being a mad scientist when he was younger, so he wears permanently-darkened contacts (and still has to wear sunglasses outside). They DO look cool!
That’s kinda awesome. I mean, he probably doesn’t think so, what with the damage and all, but still.
What’s more awesome is that your eyes will look normal until you step outside and they turn black. I also would like to order a pair that black when I’m angry.
Haha, mega intimidating!
I want these NOW! I’m getting tired of having to keep 6 pairs of sunglasses around the house because I tend to lose them and can’t even step outside on an overcast day without my shades. Plus the blacked out eyes would actually be pretty cool ;p