It is probably the newest category of contact lenses, designed or the correction of presbyopia. They are soft contact lenses. If you are at the age of 40 and you start having problems with your vision at a close distance now you have an other option exept using the reading glasses. You can use this type of contact lenses called multifocal. If you have an other visual problem such as myopia , you can correct it too with the same lenses. That means you can be able to look far and near with one pair of contact lenses.