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Laser Vision Offers New Insights

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the it-burns-mommy dept.

squidgy writes "The BBC are reporting on a system that can superimpose images over your vision using small lasers beaming the images directly onto the retina. This is already being used in the car manufacturing industry. You too could soon have T101 vision."

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  1. The real innovation by andy666 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Is the use of adaptive optics for imaging the retina. This involves using deformable mirrors or micromirror arrays to sense how the retina deforms a wavefront.

  2. Notebooks by Ledora · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Would be cool for notebooks.... have no need for a screen. Would make them even smaller and probaly consume less power too.

  3. Steve Mann has been doing this for a while by Willard+B.+Trophy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This looks exactly like Steve Mann's EyeTap device. Which, incidentally, runs Linux.