The Ocumetics Bionic Lens was created by Canadian Dr Garth Webb, and it takes around 8 minutes to implant. The lens is folded into a syringe with saline solution and and placed in the eye. Once the lens unravels the patients vision is not only corrected, but 3 times better than 20/20 vision. The lens would in essence give a person superhuman vision. For example, very small writing on the wall that someone with 20/20 vision would only be able to read if they were standing right in front of, would be legible to someone who had these implants at a distance of 20ft away from the wall.
This also opens a lot of doors for unfair advantages in the world of sports. It would be incredibly unfair to compete against someone who had these implants in an Olympic shooting competition.
Perhaps in the future we will see sportsmen electing to have the surgery without the need for it.
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