GlobalCONTACT
ISSUE 01/2024
Overview
Special: 50th Anniversary of EFCLIN // Company Profile: Larsen Equipment Design // Fitting Background: State of the Art(ificial) Pt.2 // The importance of contact lens characterization // Business & Marketing: Chat GPT – a new language for the industry?
NEWS
BostonSight – annual FitAcademy™ Retreat
BostonSight®, a nonprofit eye healthcare organization that advances the treatment of diseased and damaged corneas and dry eyes held their annual FitAcademy™ Retreat for Residents at New England College of Optometry (NECO) in Boston, September 15-16, 2023.
TRIOPTICS – SortStation IOL: Inspection of intraocular lenses in production
OptiSpheric® IOL PRO 2 offers fully automated IOL measurement. It is completed with WorkStation IOL and integrated SortStation IOL. This workplace is the best choice when it comes to carrying out all the steps upstream and downstream of measurement in a simple, fast and safe process.
Johnson & Johnson presented new clinical data on daily contact lens at BCLA conference
Johnson & Johnson Vision has presented a range of new clinical data and learning opportunities for developments in contact lenses at the 2023 British Contact Lens Association (BCLA) Clinical Conference and Exhibition from 9 – 11 June in Manchester, UK.
Bausch + Lomb launches multifocal silicone hydrogel contact lenses in the US
Bausch + Lomb has announced the U.S. launch of Bausch + Lomb INFUSE Multifocal silicone hydrogel (SiHy) daily disposable contact lenses.
Hecht: 12th Freiburg Contact Lens Forum
Already for the twelfth time, Hecht Contactlinsen GmbH invited to a Forum in the Konzerthaus Freiburg, Germany, from May 6 to 7, 2023.
ARTICLES
LenzBox: Innovative contact lens cleaning
Efficient contact lens care for soft contact lenses is particularly important for long-term and safe contact lens wear. At the last Opti Munich 2024, a start-up presented a completely new system that not only simplifies contact lens care, but also manages the amount of care product used sustainably.
Chat GPT and other AI – a new language for the industry
An interview with CSEM machine learning expert Philipp Schmid ChatGPT and other AIs have recently caused a furor in virtually all professions where people write, program or design. How much dust are these supposedly general-purpose AIs stirring up in the industry? The general-purpose AIs are kicking up an enormous amount of dust. But unlike 2016,…
Contact Lenses: Enhancing the comfort
The importance of contact lens characterization Why do wearers consider “soft” contact lenses (CLs) more comfortable than the “rigid” gas permeable (RGP) alternative? Thus, what does “comfort” mean from a scientific point of view? In this short article, we aim to emphasize the significance of meticulously characterizing and monitoring the physical parameters of CL materials…
State of the Art(ificial): Part 2
Understanding Soft Lens Design & Fitting Celebrating 50 years of EFCLIN, urges us to look back – but also gives us a good opportunity to look forward. Artificial intelligence (AI) is getting a lot of attention lately, almost to the point of becoming a fashion statement: everybody is into artificial intelligence, it seems. Several recent…
A historic therapeutic contact lens
Series on the Roth Collection Contact lenses are not only a valuable visual aid, they were also used soon after their invention as a bandage and, following the successful synthesis of water-retaining plastics, as a drug carrier on the eye. Their ability to compensate for irregular corneal astigmatism was recognized as early as the first…
Erik Larson: The Problem Solver
A visit to Larsen Equipment Design Together with his son Andrew, Erik Larsen shoulders a steel bar and carries it into his workshop. It smells of oil and metal here. A whole battalion of machinery is installed here. Large, old, new and small. And the really big ones, which easily have a footprint of 6…
LETTER
Employee, where are you?
Are you having trouble finding employees? And to keep them? There’s a specter haunting the EU – and unfortunately, it’s very real: The shortage of skilled workers. And it’s particularly noticeable in some EU countries. That’s because demographic change is in full swing here – and often more advanced than in other regions of the world.