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COOPERVISION GAMBLERS USE SPECIAL
LAUNCHES CONTACT LENSES TO CHEAT
MYDAYS ENERGYS
CONTACT LENSES a tech-savvy gambling gang that was cheating while
The Yeshwanthpur police in Bengaluru have caught
playing cards. The gambling ring is said to have used
CooperVision has introduced MyDay special contact lenses and micro-chips to scan their
Energys, the latest addition to the opponent’s cards and win every game.
MyDay contact lens line, to eye care
practitioners across the United States. This is the second such case that cops have busted
in the past two years. Earlier, in 2020, Imran bin Ismail,
MyDay Energys is said to be the
first and only 1-day contact lens that a resident of RT Nagar in the city, was arrested by the
combines CooperVision’s aspheric Bengaluru Central Crime Branch after being accused
design and material technology to of illegally earning money by fixing a hidden camera in
help tiredness and dryness associated playing cards.
with digital eye strain. The single vision Over the years, the Bengaluru police have been trying
aspheric design delivers a +0.3D boost to cast a larger net to trap the city’s gambling cartels but
of power, aimed to ease strain on eye the use of high-end technology has left them stumped
muscles allowing the wearer to shift every time. Recently, however, they managed to nab
focus from on screen to off screen with two people – Mahantesh and Ramesh – who had tried
less effort. It also features CooperVision’s to imitate Imran’s modus operandi. These men were
Aquaform Technology, which hydrates gambling using plain cards embedded with a QR code
MyDay Energys lenses to twice their – there was also a special nano-chip that enabled the
weight in water for natural wettability gamblers to identify the cards held by their opponents
and comfort, helping eyes feel less dry. and thereby, to play the winning hand.
In a press release, Michele Andrews, During their interrogation, the duo revealed how they
OD, vice president of professional and used a special set of contact lenses to scan the QR code
government affairs, in the Americas on the cards and repeatedly defeat other players. The
at CooperVision states, “The average deck of cards had been carefully altered – each card had
American now spends more than an invisible quick response (QR) code and the gamblers
seven hours per day looking at screens, would wear a special lens in one of their eyes so that it
with more than half using two or more could scan the codes to detect the type of card in the hand
devices simultaneously. Our ability to of the other players on the table and make the right moves
anticipate this evolution of digital usage to win the game. Prior to a game, the crooked gamblers
and increase in 1-day preference allowed set up spy cameras across the room to get information on
us to be first to market with such an the other games being played alongside. They would go
inventive lens. Based on enthusiastic up to those tables and try to win those games based on
feedback from trial customers, we the feedback relayed by the cameras through an earpiece.
expect U.S. eye care professionals and
contact-lens wearers to widely embrace The high-quality lenses used by these gamblers
MyDay Energys.” are available online, according to the police. The
manufacturers and distributors of these devices have been
MyDay Energys lenses are part of traced to Delhi and Rajkot.
CooperVision’s plastic neutrality initiative,
in partnership with Plastic Bank, which The police are presently hoping to establish a link
recovers plastic from oceans across between the earlier accused and the recent gang. “Imran
the globe. To date, the partnership had also been in the business of inserting cameras inside
has created an environmental impact cards and selling them to high-profile customers or other
equivalent to 130.5 million plastic bottles gamblers,” said a police officer who had been trying to
recovered from oceans. crack the link between such hi-tech gangs.
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