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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."
A strange coincidence that I happen to be reading Rainbows End right now.
It may very well be practical to put electronics next to the eyeball to do a display or whatever, but you do NOT want to put any kind of RF source/sink there. There would only be two ways to power such a unit - solar and RF energy beamed in ala RFID. The pictures I've seen suggest the latter. Having a resonant antenna at such frequencies would scare the heck out of me. Local heating or perhaps re-radiation at microwave frequencies next to something that is essentially H2O? You do KNOW that is why microwave ovens work.
I think I'll stick with LCD monitors.
Have you compiled your kernel today??
Hence the 4 year itch. Breakups frequently occur after 4 years - the biological time between insemination and the time a child/mother pair can survive without the assistance of a male. It's amazing how our instincts affect our daily lives without us even realizing it. We like to think our decisions are rational when in actuality, they are guided by biology.