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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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  2. 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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