Towards 2020: Contact lenses of the future

It’s the first day back after the 2020 New Year celebrations and contact lens practitioner Jane Jetson is driving to work. Stuck at a red light she decides to check her schedule of appointments. A couple of firm blinks turns on her contact lens head-up display and projects her diary for the day ahead of the windscreen.

First up are two children, one needing a check-up on how his myopia control is going and the second, a bit older and a gamer, has the new X-Box 720 for Christmas and wants virtual reality lenses to use it. After that comes an ophthalmologist’s referral of a glaucoma patient for an intraocular pressure monitor, and finally, for the morning, a man with low vision picking up a contact lens-mounted, telescopic LVA. ‘Ah well,’ she sighs, ‘new year, same old routine!’