In this deeply personal episode of Intrigued to Innovate, host Dr Jovan Tan sits down with Lakshmi Sujeesh, a recent graduate of the NUS Innovation and Design Program (iDP) who transformed her childhood fear of eye treatments into EyeWonder™, a groundbreaking device that's changing how children experience contact lens insertion for myopia control.

What began as a clinical observation of a struggling child at the Singapore National Eye Centre (SNEC) became a mission fuelled by empathy, pig eyeballs stored in home freezers, and relentless iteration.

Despite contact lenses being 80% effective at slowing myopia progression, only 10% of children adopt them because of overwhelming fear. Lakshmi's solution? An ingenious innovation that hides the lens from view, replacing terror with curiosity and reducing training time from 90 minutes to und ...