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Acuvue Oasys with Transitions Makes Time’s “Best Inventions of 2018”

Time has selected ACUVUE® OASYS with Transitions™ Light Intelligent Technology™ as one of the ‘Best Inventions of 2018,’ in its annual round-up spotlighting groundbreaking innovations worldwide.

Developed through a strategic partnership between Johnson & Johnson Vision and Transitions Optical, this innovation represents an entirely new category of contact lenses that provides wearers with vision correction and reduces blaring light for all-day soothing vision.

“We are very proud to see ACUVUE® OASYS with Transitions™ Light Intelligent Technology™ selected by TIME magazine as one of the ‘Best Inventions of 2018’ . This innovation will revolutionize contact lenses and photochromics by introducing the benefits of light adaptation to more patients” said Chrystel Barranger, president of Essilor Photochromics and Transitions Optical.

“Addressing the unmet needs of contact lens wearers, this innovation contributes to achieving our mission to bring good vision to each person on the planet.”

Read the complete press release from Essilor HERE.

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