 Previous solutions to AMD included bulky glasses or surgical implants.But the development this new contact lens, which is made of polymethyl methacrylate, could offer an unobtrusive solution.One of the earliest known motion pictures to introduce the use of contact lenses as a make-up artist's device for enhancing the eyes was by the innovative actor Lon Chaney in the 1926 film "The Road to Mandalay" to create the effect of a character who had a blind eye.