Have you ever considered having vision beter than 20/20? What if you wouldn’t need surgery to achieve that super vision? Well, welcome to the 21st century as adaptive optics come into the picture, and at the forefront of this technology is PixelOptics - a company that has recently won a US Department of Defense (DOD) grant to perfect its "supervision" technology.

Wired News reports that PixelOptics’ chairman, Mr. Ron Blum, claims that his company’s technology "…could double the quality of a person’s eyesight." This technology is based on tiny electronically-controlled pixels inserted into conventional lenses - which can adapt to aberrations present in eyeballs. In fact, these pixels could possibly even adjust to certain environmental conditions that negatively affect eyesight. Wow.

But while PixelOptics’ hopes to produce a working prototype within a year, that prototype will most probably be military-only technology. I wonder how long it will take before such technology is available to us general folk - at a reasonable cost that is. For now, I think LASIK eye correction surgery or Ophthonix’s adaptive optics lenses seem to be safe, and rather affordable bets.

[News via Wired News]