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Seeing The Wood From The Shrubs: Azalea Begins Tests Of Its Smart Contact Lens

 
• By Barnaby Pickering

The Belgian start-up is developing a scleral contact lens with an inbuilt LCD screen capable of filtering light – offering a non-surgical solution to a variety of ophthalmic conditions.

Azalea Vision is conducting the first on-eye tests of its ALMA smart contact lens.

In 2020, Azalea was spun off from Ghent University and Imec, a nanoelectronics and digital technology research hub based in Leuven, Belgium. (Also see "Azalea Vision Formed To Develop...

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