Wow! Now this is new and different!

In the body, the shapes of many collagen-containing tissues, including corneas, are held in place by attractions of oppositely charged components. These tissues contain a lot of water, so applying an electric potential to them lowers the tissue’s pH, making it more acidic. By altering the pH, the rigid attractions within the tissue are loosened and make the shape malleable. When the original pH is restored, the tissue is locked into the new shape.

In this work, the team constructed specialized, platinum “contact lenses” that provided a template for the corrected shape of the cornea, then placed each over a rabbit eyeball in a saline solution meant to mimic natural tears. The platinum lens acted as an electrode to generate a precise pH change when the researchers applied a small electric potential to the lens. After about a minute, the cornea’s curvature conformed to the shape of the lens — about the same amount of time LASIK takes, but with fewer steps, less expensive equipment and no incisions.

Sounds cool! Hope it continues to do well in further testing, since it hasn't been performed on any live animals yet.

That's neat. I knew they had contacts that would temporarily shape the cornea and your vision would start out great and degrade through the day. "Programming" the cornea is pretty cool.

I don't think I would get LASIK because of the risks, but I have been interested in the EVO ICL lens replacement. If this procedure ends up going retail, I will look into it.

Partial paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0268003318300986

It doesn't go so far as to talk about permanence, at least as far as that text goes. Hopefully it lasts a long time and doesn't just revert after a few days.