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Contact lenses that allow people to see in the dark invented
short by Anmol Sharma / on Thursday, 22 May, 2025
Chinese scientists have invented new infrared contact lenses that allow people to see in the dark, even with their eyes closed. The lenses enable "super-vision" by converting infrared light into visible light, the scientists said. To create the contact lenses, the scientists combined nanoparticles with flexible, non-toxic polymers that are used in standard soft contact lenses.
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