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11.23.09

Custom-Tuned Eyesight Is the Latest Trend in Ophthalmology

By Adrian Covert Posted 10.06.2009 at 9:15 am 7 Comments

20/20 vision is no longer enough to function in this world. In the latest trend in laser eye surgeries, people are tailoring their eyesight to suit their lifestyle or profession, hoping to give themselves an edge in their respective fields.

Need better long-range vision for some friendly night-time sniping from half a mile away? Tweak it. Want one eye adjusted for distance and the other for reading? Tweak it.

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The Vision to Win

The surgical secret of a bobsled champ's success

By Brett Zarda Posted 03.02.2009 at 11:16 am 0 Comments

We don't get many opportunities to write about bobsledding. And while the U.S. Men's team winning the four-man bobsled championships yesterday for the first time in 50 years sounds newsworthy, it's not quite the standard hook for Popular Science readers. But the captain of that winning team, Steven Holcomb, nearly quit the sport last year with a degenerative eyesight disease, until he found a novel eye surgery -- and we're not talking Lasik here. Bobsled here we come.

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READ MORE ABOUT > bobsled, eyesight, ICL, implantable collamer lens, LASIK, sports, surgery, vision