Taiwan’s Innolux and National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) have developed the world’s first mass-producible liquid crystal gradient-index (LC gradient index) glasses, overcoming longstanding physical and chemical limitations of liquid crystals. The breakthrough, announced by the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) on September 1, 2025, was published in Physical Review Applied in August 2025 and highlighted as a special report by the American Physical Society.