Laser Turns Brown Eyes Blue

Want to turn your brown eyes blue? Forget contact lenses! Changing the color of your eyes permanently from brown to blue may be just a laser treatment away, according to one doctor working on the technology:

Dr. Gregg Homer at Stroma Medical in California announced on KTLA-TV that he had come up with a laser procedure that removes the brown pigment, known as melanin, in the iris. Once removed, the blue color underneath is revealed, giving the person blue eyes. Homer said the procedure takes about 20 seconds.

“We use a laser that’s tuned to a specific frequency to remove the pigment from the surface of the iris,” he told KTLA. [...]

“The eyes are the windows to the soul, [there's] this idea that people can actually see into it — a blue eye is not opaque. You can see deeply into it, and a brown eye is very opaque, and I think that there is something meaningful about this idea of having open windows to the soul,” Homer told KTLA.

Link | See the video clip over at KTLA - via Technabob


That's how they justify it? With some mamby-pamby speak about the eyes being windows to the soul? Why not just say, "Hey, if you've always wanted blue eyes, now's your chance!"
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I think a lot of people will get this specifically to later get color contacts in their color of choice...once you have removed the dark color, you can get tinted lenses in just about any color and they show up a lot better...but I'm pretty firm about natural coloring...who wants to change who they look at in the mirror everyday? What if you hate it? You can't get your own eyes back. Maddening.
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A little tempting for the contact reason above. I think I'd rather wait and see if they find a way to change pigments just as quickly, so I could get my eyes colored whenever I felt like it. Reminds me of Wizard of Oz.
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Wonder if they will be able to do patterns. If so, the iris might become the new lower back. Starburt against a blue background? Or maybe a radioactive symbol. Heck, maybe even a bunch of the little brown Grateful Dead bears dancing around the iris. Tackiness will know no bounds!
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Though I think Stephanie's got it right, and the concept sounds fun- no thanks. I'm creeped out by using a laser on my eye for something useful, never mind just for aesthetic lols.

(racist? Does that have to be the explanation for everything these days?)

Jason 123, I shudder to think of the possibilities. ;)
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In the movie Idiocracy everybody in the future is a total moron.

Leave it up to plastic surgeons and everybody in the future will also look exactly the same.
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@hmm...

Everyone will look the same right up until the aesthetic relativism movement, where we'll have abstract cosmetic surgery. That's when the world will take a turn for the weird.
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Just wait until they can do it with a much finer dot-size and power-level.

At that point, you could probably get just about any color known to man, and a few not.

I think even green eyes are not actually a solid color when you look up-close.
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