So Um...There's a New Laser Treatment That Permanently Changes Your Eye Color
This is totally the kind of thing sci-fi writers imagined would happen in the year 2015: A new, non-invasive treatment out of California-based company Strōma Medical is using melanin-targeting laser technology to break down pigment on the outer layers of brown irises for permanently blue eyes. "The fundamental principle is that under every brown eye is a blue eye," explained Gregg Homer, one of the doctors testing the laser, to CNN. "The only difference between a brown eye and a blue eye is a very thin layer of pigment on the surface. Take that pigment away, then the light can enter the stroma and when the light scatters, it only reflects back the shortest wavelengths and that's the blue end of the spectrum.