Ever been stymied in a desire to bat your baby blues by the fact that your eyes aren't actually blue? An experimental new procedure could see you permanently change your peepers' hue. Strōma Medical Corporation, based out of Laguna Beach, California, claims to have invented a new laser eye surgery technique that eliminates the pigment from the patient's eye. Here's how it works.
In darker, warm eye colours -- browns and black -- the upper layer of the iris (the stroma) contains high concentrations of melanin, the natural pigment that effects skin colour, hair colour and eye colour. However, in blue and green eyes, the stroma contains very little melanin -- the blue colour is caused by a light-scattering effect called the Tyndall effect, similar to the Rayleigh scattering effect that makes the sky appear blue. Blue-coloured eyes are actually eyes without pigment. Strōma's technique…
