<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ef9bd64f-2cad-4eb1-8078-906ae5c074ad/79128FCE-3CC0-47AB-ACCE-C29B0B8A8A80/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.smartplanet.com/business/blog/smart-takes/transition-contact-lenses-respond-to-light-could-replace-sunglasses/2000/" href="http://www.smartplanet.com/business/blog/smart-takes/transition-contact-lenses-respond-to-light-could-replace-sunglasses/2000/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.smartplanet.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smartplanet.com/business/blog/smart-takes/transition-contact-lenses-respond-to-light-could-replace-sunglasses/2000/">Researchers in Singapore have created the first-ever “transition contact lenses,” which darken automatically in response to bright sunlight.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smartplanet.com/business/blog/smart-takes/transition-contact-lenses-respond-to-light-could-replace-sunglasses/2000/"><P>Transition lenses have been available for eyeglasses for four decades, but the technology has never before been implemented on contact lenses.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smartplanet.com/business/blog/smart-takes/transition-contact-lenses-respond-to-light-could-replace-sunglasses/2000/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.smartplanet.com/img/9A11DE26-084C-4F71-B3EB-D0B1DEA2758F" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smartplanet.com/business/blog/smart-takes/transition-contact-lenses-respond-to-light-could-replace-sunglasses/2000/"><P>The darkening can accomplish two tasks: it can make the wearer’s vision in bright light more comfortable, and it can protect the eyes against the sun’s damaging rays.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smartplanet.com/business/blog/smart-takes/transition-contact-lenses-respond-to-light-could-replace-sunglasses/2000/"><P>It’s so fast, in fact, that initial tests proved the contact lenses faster than traditional transition sunglasses on the market.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smartplanet.com/business/blog/smart-takes/transition-contact-lenses-respond-to-light-could-replace-sunglasses/2000/"><P>The researchers say response time is 10 to 20 seconds — much faster than the minutes it takes traditional transition sunglasses.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/79128FCE-3CC0-47AB-ACCE-C29B0B8A8A80/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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