Reads like snake oil to me. I'd love to learn how this devices reshapes your eye lens when not worn. There are methods out there that people swear by, but I haven't seen a drop of evidence. I'd jump at the opportunity if it worked.
There is Orthokeratology, which physically deforms the cornea via a contact lens, and lasts about a day or two. But it isn't ideal, and can have bad outcomes.
That's correct, at least in my experience. I could have worked around the every-afternoon decline by carrying a number of glasses in -1.00 to -6.00 and switching among them as needed, or by wearing the ortho-k lenses, which I could tolerate with my eyes closed while I slept, but would have been intolerable while performing any normal activities. Either way, that completely negated my goal of being able to live corrective lens-free during my waking hours.
The other thing that really bugged me was the fact that these lenses could not correct my vision across my entire dilated pupil, and that issue also got worse as the day went on. That resulted in terrible halos around light sources in high contrast situations, such as at night when driving home from work.
I wore ortho-k lenses from about 10 years old into my twenties. I switched to daily disposables as I think they are more convenient but when I was younger and playing more sports the ortho-k lenses were great. There is also some evidence that they can prevent eyesight from deteriorating.
If this worked I would take a loan if that's what it took.
Most likely snake oil. Even more so since they are calling it "smart", I'm surprised there's no blockchain.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. This thing can somehow physically reshape the eyes (or the cornea at least) permanently, with no surgery.
Physically reshaping the eye, isn't as crazy as it sounds.
Your eye shape/length isn't set, it can both shorten and lengthen in response to stimulus.
I am by no means claiming this device works, just that changing the shape of the eye is at least theoretically possible without surgery.
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Maturity and Homeostasis of Refractive State
Although emmetropization is generally thought of as occurring during early development, homeostatic growth mechanisms need to be at least as precise during maturity if size is to be tightly maintained. Does vision guide eye growth only during a narrow period in development? In tree shrews, there is clear evidence of a period of maximum sensitivity to form deprivation (Siegwart and Norton, 1998). In chicks, however, it appears that susceptibility declines steadily from the earliest period, perhaps being related to the growth rate, with older animals showing consistent but smaller responses to form deprivation (Wallman et al., 1987), even up to 1 year of age (Papastergiou et al., 1998). Adolescent marmosets and rhesus macaques also show decreased, but still significant, form-deprivation myopia Smith et al. 1999, Troilo et al. 2000b. In humans as well, there is evidence of changes in ocular dimensions in young adults associated with the progression of myopia, perhaps related to visual tasks (McBrien and Adams, 1997). Thus, the young adult eye is still subject to visually guided growth."
