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Where Are Your Contact Lens Displays?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the we'll-use-them-as-huds-in-our-flying-cars dept.

destinyland writes "'We already see a future in which the humble contact lens becomes a real platform, like the iPhone is today,' argues researcher Babak Parvis, 'with lots of developers contributing their ideas and inventions.' He provides an update on the contact lens with transparent circuitry that's being developed at the University of Washington. (Its components will eventually include hundreds of LEDs which form images in front of the eye such as charts and photographs). They've already developed a lens-with-LED prototype that's powered by 330 microwatts of wireless radio-frequency power, and believe the lenses could also be used as biosensors to deliver body chemistry readings (including blood sugar levels). But 'What we've done so far barely hints at what will soon be possible with this technology,' says Dr. Parviz."

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  1. I Seem to Have Misplaced Them ... by eldavojohn · · Score: 5, Funny

    Where Are Your Contact Lens Displays?

    Oh, that's right, I left them out in the garage in my flying car. You see, I was running Duke Nukem Forever in Hurd but the battery ran out of power so I set them aside to bring in and recharge at my tabletop cold fusion station. It's okay though, I'll have forever to enjoy them now that Ray Kurzweil's Singularity has happened.

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    1. Re:I Seem to Have Misplaced Them ... by Sockatume · · Score: 5, Funny

      What an insightful Slashdot comment, attached to this accurate summary of an original, well-written online tech story.

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      No kidding!!! What do you say at this point?
    2. Re:I Seem to Have Misplaced Them ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      Ooo, ooo, I get it! We're bolding things that could never happen!

    3. Re:I Seem to Have Misplaced Them ... by Sockatume · · Score: 4, Funny

      ;_;

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    4. Re:I Seem to Have Misplaced Them ... by brian0918 · · Score: 3, Funny

      Your statements are making me sick to my stomach... I think I'll go to the bathroom and use the three seashells.

    5. Re:I Seem to Have Misplaced Them ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      ...not to mention the year of the Linux desktop.

    6. Re:I Seem to Have Misplaced Them ... by Galaphine · · Score: 2, Funny

      Slashdot: First Contact:
      Boldly going where no HTML tag has gone before!

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  2. Where are my contact lense displays? by Nautical+Insanity · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't know...I seem to have misplaced them. Shit, I'm blind without my visual overlay.

  3. Re:No contacts, please by Scutter · · Score: 4, Funny

    You don't see anyone wearing contact sunglasses, now do you? Not even the ones that darken in sunlight and lighten indoors.

    No, it's because seeing people with solid black eyes would creep people right the hell out. Didn't you see Event Horizon?

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  4. Re:What could possibly go wrong? by mschirmer · · Score: 3, Funny

    Could you imagine the possibilities? *wink wink* .. You've bored at work, so you close your eyes and voila, a peep show all to yourself! No need to leave the office!

    Wait... I'll be back. I have to go pull my mind out of the gutter.

  5. Re:What could possibly go wrong? by snspdaarf · · Score: 3, Funny

    "No, Boss, I wasn't sleeping, I was playing pocket pool with Jenna Jameson."

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  6. The Blue by JustOK · · Score: 4, Funny

    The Blue Cataract of Death.

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  7. Re:No contacts, please by sznupi · · Score: 2, Funny

    But imagine the reaction to faint red glow of your eyes...

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  8. This it great by AP31R0N · · Score: 4, Funny

    These will definitely help me find Sarah Connor.

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  9. Re:No contacts, please by stjobe · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm not sure it would be that obvious. Apparently Deanna Troi wore black contacts for all of TNG (as did other betazoids) and I can't say I noticed.

    "Hey! Up here!"

    Small wonder you missed it...

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  10. Re:Focus? by Last_Available_Usern · · Score: 4, Funny

    Let me just make sure I read this right...you want to shoot lasers directly onto my retina?