Contact lenses: Focusing in on digital use

Digital device use is changing the way people live and is now beginning to change the way the eye care profession prescribes.

Research from the Vision Council has left no one in any doubt about the effects of screen over-use, multiple screen use and the prevalence of problems. While spectacle lens makers have typically looked at blue light filters products such as Essilor’s Eyezen have also explored adding plus powers from 0.4 to 0.85 to ease the burden of constantly refocusing. Contact lens makers have concentrated on comfort.

The latest contact lens for the digital age to hit the market is CooperVision’s Biofinity Energys which is aimed squarely at an increasingly square-eyed patient base. Unlike previous contact lenses, which have majored on the compromised ocular surface or targeted the pre-presbyopic eye, Energys is looking at technology’s heaviest users – millennials.