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Where Are Your Contact Lens Displays?
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."
Professional athletes wear sun-sensitive contacts, actually. They're about the only people who have a big enough need for that kind of thing and can afford them - they're rather expensive.
Since I can't tell them apart, I treat all ACs as the same person.
maybe here:
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And for the recursive obssesed folks, there's:
Where Are Your Contact Lens Displays?
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Do people use retina scans anymore? I thought that they had been replace with iris scans, which are easier to do and can also use rapidly varying light patterns to test pupil dilation, which is much harder to fake than a static pattern.
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How long did you try for? I started wearing contacts for flying and shooting (shooting with glasses gave me four different images to try to aim at because of the angle, and flying was problematic because they didn't fit well under the headphones). I was only putting them in once a week, and it took about ten to fifteen minutes. Once I started wearing them every day, I got much quicker. It also helped when my optician told me that any suggestions involving mirrors were nonsense. Don't look at your eye in a mirror when putting the lenses in, look straight at the lens and move your finger closer to your eye until they're in.
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they're rather expensive.
I can't understand why they would be. I had a pair of the sun-sensitive glasses years ago, and they didn't cost any more than regular glasses.
BTW, those glasses are NOT GOOD. Like any other muscle, your iris atrophes with disuse and after a year or two, walking outside with the sun sensitive glasses is no different than walking outside with regular glasses for someone who hasn't worn the sun-sensitive ones. And if you walk outside without them it's REALLY bright.
If you wear glasses, get contacts and use regular sunglasses, or clip on sunglasses. I can't understand how eye doctors can't know those things are bad for your eyes.
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It's amazing what they have now. My left eye's natural lens (not the cornea, the one behind the iris) was replaced with an artificial lens that sits on struts, allowing it to focus. before the operation I wore contacts for my extreme nearsightedness, plus reading glasses for my age-related farsightedness (yes, you can be both nearsighted and farsighted at the same time; that's what they make bifocal glasses for). The vision in that eye is now BETTER thah 20/20 at all distances. I see better than most twenty year olds!
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That would be possible with current tech, and would be very inexpensive. You can get non-prescription contacts at WalMart optical that give you red pupils and irises, snake-eyes or cat's eyes, etc now for about $30 per pair. I wouldn't be surprised if they did have mirrored ones as well.
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