Scientists have developed contact lenses that allow people to see in the dark. In an extra futuristic twist, they even work better when people have their eyes closed.

In a nutshell A new smart contact lens can monitor both eye pressure and eye movement, even while your eyes are closed, providing critical data that current open-eye devices miss, especially during ...

Contact lenses are evolving rapidly with technology, offering users more comfort, better vision, and even health-monitoring capabilities.

The contact lens technology uses nanoparticles that absorb infrared light and convert it into wavelengths that are visible to mammalian eyes (e.g., electromagnetic radiation in the 400-700 nm range).

Combining regular lens technology with nanoparticles, researchers have created prototypes of contact lenses that allow people to see in the dark — and through their eyelids.

Innovative Technology at Eye-Level. The newly designed lenses use nanoparticles embedded in soft, flexible, non-toxic polymers—materials commonly found in regular contact lenses.

In the future, by working together with materials scientists and optical experts, we hope to make a contact lens with more precise spatial resolution and higher sensitivity.” Cell, 2025. DOI: 10 ...

The contact lenses in question are made with nanoparticles which absorb infrared light, and as Phys.org, which spotted this invention, points out, specifically this is near-infrared light (NIR ...

The lenses were tested on both mice and humans, and the results suggest this technology could one day replace bulky night vision gear with something much more discreet.

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The contact lens technology uses nanoparticles that absorb infrared light and convert it into wavelengths that are visible to mammalian eyes (e.g., electromagnetic radiation in the 400–700 nm ...