Coming Soon, Super Vision

lil_nohreaga writes "Wired is reporting that several companies are developing electronically controlled lenses to provide enhanced vision. From the article: Thanks to technologies created for astronomical telescopes and spy satellites, aberrometers can map a person's eye with extreme accuracy. Lasers bounce off the back of the eyeball, and structures in the eye scatter the resulting beam of light."

Comments

Great

[Anonymous Coward]

Guess it's time to throw away those X-ray glasses I got by saving a bazillion bazooka chewing gum comics.

Old tech

[Anonymous Coward]

Johnson Smith Co have been advertising similar specs these for years in the back of comic books.

oblig. simpsons reference

[kevin.fowler]

The goggles, they do nothing!

I'm wracking my mind

[ianscot]

An important aspect of the UI design for something like this might be the inclusion of some sort of aural cue for when the enhanced vision was activated...

But what sound did Steve Austin's eye make, again?

bah

[Anonymous Coward]

It'll still never help my wife see reason...

Lasers...

[sconeu]

Lasers bounce off the back of the eyeball,

WARNING: Do not look directly into laser with remaining good eye!

Just move your head closer.

[jos3000]

Lister: Any problems?
Kryten: Well, just one or two. In fact I've compiled a little list if you'll indulge me. Now then, uh, my optical system doesn't appear to have a zoom function.
Lister: No, human eyes don't have a zoom.
Kryten: Well then, how do you bring a small object into sharp focus?
Lister: Well, you just move your head closer to the object.
Kryten: I see. Move your head ... closer, hmm, to the object. All right, okay. Well, what about other optical effects, like split screen, slow motion, Quantel(tm)?
Lister: No. We don't have them.
Kryten: You don't have them -- just the zoom? Hmm. Well, no, that's fine, that's great, no, no, that's really great, that's great. Now then, my nipples don't work.

"Lasers bounce off the back of the eyeball..."

[Caspian]

Hmmmm. You go first. :)

Yawn

[Anonymous Coward]

Wake me when I can have Xray vision.

Till then I'll be happy with my 20-20 Golden Hindsight.

Beer Googles

[a803redman]

Can they make the girl look the the same in the morning as she did in the club last night? Please tell me I'm not the only one with that issue...

Re:Some people lack vision

[CreatureComfort]

Turn in your /. - geek cred immediatly! Shame on you for not including long distance upskirts/voyuerism in your short list of applications. Everyone knows that porn is what drives all new technologies.

Re:Will these glasses impair your 'normal' vision?

[belloc]

This sounds like a great idea, my only concern is what happens to your vision when you take off the glasses?

You suddenly and inexplicably become unrecognizable as your alter ego.

Re:Other applications

[master_p]

And then Bill Gates is the first person to afford such a device, thus making the Slashdot Gates-borg icon a reality!

Zoom would be cool

[mangu]

with some extra controll mechanisms to be able to optically zoom as well

That's exactly what I need. My blonde neighbour always draws the shades whenever she sees me pointing my telescope at her bedroom window. With zoom I wouldn't need any telescope, and if I got a retina remapping too, I could pretend to be looking to the other side as well...

Super Vision?

[nytes]

If I had any supervision I wouldn't be posting on /.

Uh, what?

[scutato]

Lasers bounce off the back of the eyeball, and structures in the eye scatter the resulting beam of light.

I'm sure it's supposed to be "laser beams." Lasers bouncing around in your eye may be a bit...uncomfortable.

Re:There are grades too.

[John Hurliman]

He'd only be blind in one eye, and it would be a great excuse to wear an eyepatch with a skull and crossbones.