The Daily Bubble

Imagine a laser scanning your eye and producing a unique map of every bump, valley and contour. Next, a special lens is embedded with tens of thousands of tiny pixels, each programmed to correct your eyes imperfections. Multiple companies are doing just that!

Thanks to technologies created for astronomical telescopes and spy satellites, aberrometers can map a person's eye with extreme accuracy. Lasers bounce off the back of the eyeball, and structures in the eye scatter the resulting beam of light.

Software reads the scattered beam and creates a map of the patient's eye, including tiny abnormalities such as bumps, growths and valleys. The pixelated eyeglass lens is then tuned to refract light in a way that corrects for those high-level aberrations.

Blum hopes to have a working prototype within a year that is built to military specifications.

What it would be like to see twice as far all the time? Or have lenses that correct for temperature and lighting changes? You'll know soon enough.