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It can be so exciting and fascinating to visualize the different colors that a person’s eyes may have. For someone with brown eyes all his life, wanting blue eyes is such a dream, not just for novelty but for a dramatic change. Understandably, when you do have blue eyes, it’s also a boost to your self-esteem when the dress that you’re wearing reflects so beautifully in your eyes. The color of your eyes gives you your personality, reflects your emotions and over-all presents your character to the world. How do you get your eyes’ color?

The iris is that part of the eye that reflects the eyes’ color. It is located between the cornea and the crystalline lens. It is composed of fibers/muscles that contract and expand, enlarging and shrinking the pupil (the hole in the iris) which then lets the light through. The striations in the iris fibers also contribute to the intensity of the shade of the color of the eyes.

Genetics plays a major part in the color of your eyes. Parents often get excited at the thought of what their baby’s eye color will be. The general rule of thumb is based on the dominant-recessive gene theory of which the colors brown, blue and green are the most common. Brown is often called the dominant gene, green is the middle ground and blue is the recessive gene. What this means is that when both parents are brown-eyed, there is a higher probability that their child will also be brown-eyed. It is still possible for brown-eyed parents to have a blue-eyed child only when the blue recessive gene matches up with another somewhere down the line. But genetics is such a tricky subject that it is still entirely possible to have blue-eyed parents and brown-eyed kids.

More recent developments in the study of eye color have revealed that apart from genetics, the concentration and distribution of melanin in the iris fibers also plays a large role in the color of your eyes. The larger the volume of melanin, you get brown eyes. The lesser the concentration, you get blue eyes. The other colors, like amber, hazel, gray, red and violet will need more studies to fully understand.

Everyone needs a little excitement in their lives. Whether it’s reading a best selling book or standing in line to watch your favorite movie, experiencing happiness is a good way to stay young and youthful. The little changes you bring to your life count. If you’ve bought a new dress, visited a hair salon or you went for the total make-over, it’s nice to know that you are able to change what you want in a snap. Have you ever wished that you can change the color of your eyes to complement your new hair or the color of your dress to make the change complete?

As a matter of fact, you can! If you want an affordable way to change your eye color, you may simply put on a pair of the colored contact lenses of your choice and you’re good to go. Some people are freaked out when they’re told to have surgery to permanently change their eye color. There’s always that fear of dying on the operating table never mind the costs of the surgery itself. Also, the finality of having a permanent eye color change may be daunting for some.

This is the reason why colored contact lenses are becoming so popular. They’re temporary which means you can revert to your natural color when you want to. There’s not a lot of maintenance involved especially if you choose the “dailies” or the daily disposable kind. Use them once and then you throw them away. There are even contact lenses specifically designed for either light- or dark-colored eyes. What’s more, you can use them if you’re near-sighted, far-sighted or even if you have astigmatism so that’s like killing two birds with one stone.

A professional fitting at your eye doctor’s clinic is highly recommended to get the best and compatible eye wear for you. In the USA, you must get an eye doctor prescription before buying contact lenses. Ask your eye care practitioner about zero correction factor.

When you hear the term “bionic”, what’s the first thing that comes to your mind?  People usually associate the word “bionic” with robots or with super-human abilities, much like the stuff you see in the movies.  But what if the fiction that you have seen in the movies has now become fact?  That the present has caught up to the future and is here right now.

At the University of Washington, engineers have successfully designed and manufactured soft contact lenses with imprinted electronic circuits.  A more graphic explanation is something out of the Terminator movie.  If you remember that scene where he’s supposed to be scanning and getting a handle on his surroundings, it’s like he has a virtual display incorporated into his eye.

From movies to real life, virtual display systems have a number of possible practical applications.  Any kind of data needed for a certain function may be displayed on the lenses.  Pilots or drivers may see specific vehicular information on their terminals.  A more intense gaming experience may be had if the contact lenses can immerse the players in their games.  Surfing the Internet may also be a possibility with the contact lenses serving as a virtual display screen.

The important thing is that the engineers were able to develop biologically safe and flexible contact lenses that are capable of functioning within a restricted medium.  The breakthrough in their research involved the combination of materials that will be safe to use on the eyes and on the body (in general).  In order to combine the material used for the contact lenses with the material used for the circuits required creative thinking.  In the end, they were able to successfully integrate all of the components on a microscopic level.

Testing was performed on rabbits who were made to wear the contact lenses for up to 20 minutes.  They didn’t experience or register any adverse effects while wearing the special contact lenses.