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Electronic Contact Lens Displays Pixels On the Eye

An anonymous reader writes "The future of augmented-reality technology is here — as long as you're a rabbit. Bioengineers have placed the first contact lenses containing electronic displays into the eyes of rabbits as a first step on the way to proving they are safe for humans. The bunnies suffered no ill effects, the researchers say."

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  1. Terminator-style wouldn't be useful by RadioElectric · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You can't read text in your peripheral vision. The best they could hope for would be sticking rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) text in the fovea (i.e. flashing up a rapid sequence of words right in the centre of the visual field). This could work, but it's hard to see why anybody would want it. You wouldn't be able to multi-task, because the text would be in the way. You wouldn't be able to access the text in a non-serial fashion either, which removes any advantage over having it presented in audio form.

  2. Re:This makes no sense by AikonMGB · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You should get a research position with the lab, you obviously have a far deeper understanding of the subject.

  3. Re:Fat party girls rejoice! by Gaygirlie · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Unfortunately it cannot hide people being douchebags.

  4. hijack strangers' eyes by roman_mir · · Score: 5, Insightful

    the next big thing: hijack other people's vision by cracking whatever needs to be cracked (and it seems there is nothing to crack there, except the frequency at this point), send advertising directly into people's eyes.

    You can't even CLOSE your eyes at that point, you close your eyes and the images still keep on coming! (which, by the way, could be a new way to do something about insomnia for some people, just project the jumping sheep right into the eyes for a while).

  5. Re:ooh pick me pick me by wiedzmin · · Score: 4, Insightful

    For every hot woman on the planet, there is a guy who is sick and tired of banging her. It's not the fact that his wife may be ugly, it's just that she's his wife man.

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