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."

Comments

Re:No contacts, please

[thesandtiger]

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.

Where Are Your Contact Lens Displays?

[Saija]

maybe here:
Augmented Reality In a Contact Lens
Bionic Contact Lens May Lead to Overlay Displays
Contact Lenses for Computer Professionals?
Bionic Contact Lens May Lead to Overlay Displays
Smart Contact Lenses
Permormance-Enhancing Contact Lenses

And for the recursive obssesed folks, there's:
Where Are Your Contact Lens Displays?

Re:Visible from the outside?

[TheRaven64]

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.

Re:Half an hour to insert

[TheRaven64]

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.