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Tracey Anne Duncan

Could these eye drops really replace your glasses?

I think I probably need glasses, but I’ve been avoiding going to an ophthalmologist for, oh, about a decade. When I was a kid, I thought glasses were grown up cool. Now that I’m an actual grown up, the last thing I need in my life is another thing to carry. But apparently, these cyborgian new eye drops could potentially replace your glasses, so maybe I don’t even need to worry about it.

Maybe. “For anybody who doesn’t want to fiddle with reading glasses, this might be a really helpful alternative,” Scott MacRae, an ophthalmologist at the University of Rochester’s Center for Visual Science, told the Times. Oh, that’s definitely me.

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