"Dimmer contact lens" whose brightness changes with ultraviolet rays appears from Johnson & End Johnson and will be released in 2019

Contact lens that responds to ultraviolet rays falling from the sun, the brightness of the lens changes automaticallyACUVUE OASYS with Transitions"Johnson & Johnson, a leading manufacturer, announced. A lens of dimming type already commercialized in sunglasses will be introduced to contact lens for the first time and will be released in the first half of 2019.

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Even if the outdoor comes out in the outdoor such as when the summer sun shines, the eyes are damaged by the ultraviolet rays unnoticed and the "eyes burned" state becomes the situation that the visibility becomes strange. In such a case sunglasses are useful, and in addition to the fixed type of brightness, the dimming type whose transmittance changes with the intensity of ultraviolet light is widely used.

Johnson · End · Johnson, a major contact lens manufacturer, announced that such a dimming type lens will be introduced into contact lenses. The company is a pioneer in dimming lensesTransition lens, And realized the world's first dimming contact lens that can change brightness quickly and seamlessly according to the environment.


It seems that it was not possible to make a light control lens with materials used for contact lenses in the past, but Johnson & End Johnson has finished the release as a product at last after 10 years of co-development period with the transition lens Thing. It has already been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and in addition to the automatic change in brightness, it also has the function of cutting out the blue light emitted from PC monitors and others.

The lens is a disposable type for two weeks and it is planned to be released in the first half of 2019. Besides protecting the eyes from the dazzling sun of the summer, it seems to be a convenient contact lens even for people who are not good at sunglasses, such as to prevent "snow eyes" when exposed to ultraviolet rays with the reflection of the ski resort.