Eye on the prize: Contact lens breakthrough wins accolades

Time magazine lavishes praise on a Pinellas Park company's invention.

  • By Business Observer Staff
  • | 6:00 a.m. December 21, 2018
The new contact lenses with light-transition technology will go on sale in 2019. Courtesy photo.
The new contact lenses with light-transition technology will go on sale in 2019. Courtesy photo.
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It might not have the panache of Time magazine's much-ballyhooed “Person of the Year," but getting on the periodical's best inventions of the year list is a not-too-shabby accomplishment. 

 

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