Telescopic Contact Lenses Unveiled

sarahnaomi writes Unveiled at this week's AAAS meeting/conference in San Jose, the telescopic contact lenses are the creation of optics engineers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, with a bit of help from designs developed at DARPA. The technology involves a bit more than just the contacts. The system is based on the interaction between a pair of normal-looking eyeglasses and the lenses, which are embedded with what are really just a pair of supertiny aluminum telescopes. The contacts are still only about 1.5 millimeters thick, and feature 1 mm-wide channels or pores that allow the required breathability-maintaining airflow. This last part proved to be one of the biggest challenges, requiring years of experimentation.

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You lost me at "supertiny"

[MetalliQaZ]

What kind of writer would ever create and then use a word like 'supertiny'?

Re:You lost me at "supertiny"

[binarylarry]

Note from the editor:

It was better than his first choice, ultraweensey.

infrared telescopic contact lenses, now, please

[amplesand]

I am one of those who never picked up any of those 700 000 infrared Sony camcorders in 1998. Could we, please, have infrared telescopic contact lenses now!

Re:FP bitches

[nitehawk214]

Zoom in on this: 8====D~

Because without these, your dick is invisible?