An eye for bling? Try diamond lenses

Would you wear diamond contact lenses?

They may sound like a hoax, but the Today Show blog, Wired, and Gizmodo are reporting on gold-plated, diamond-encrusted lenses in India.

Forget bling on your finger, now you can have eyes that literally light up a room for a whopping $15,000.

According to a report on Yahoo, creator Dr. Chandrashekhar Chawan said he got the idea for diamond contact lenses after his wife had the precious stones implanted in her teeth.

His new La Ser eye jewelry line features contacts with 18 diamonds adorning a yellow or white gold ring around the lenses.

He uses Boston Scleral lenses, which are typically used to treat eye illnesses, to prevent the lenses from touching the cornea. Only 3,996 sets will be made, and Chawan hopes to sell them outside of India. Experts, however, are skeptical about their safety.

Sal Riggio, a licensed optician at Manhattan Grand Optical in New York City had never heard of the diamond contacts until we brought them to his attention, but he dismissed them when he learned they were not FDA approved. “I don’t know if they’re comfortable and I don’t know if they’re healthy,” Riggio told us.

“When they’re FDA approved and distributed in this country then we’ll learn about them, but it sounds ridiculous and unreasonable to me. Do I see a purpose? No, but today’s generation under 30, they do a lot of crazy things to their bodies. Tattoos, piercings-they probably would try it.” He laughed when we told him about the $15,000 price tag. “You’re going to have to call someone in Beverly Hills, because I don’t know anyone here willing to pay that. You won't ever see them in my store.”

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