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Google Files Patent For Injecting A Device Directly Into Your Eyeball (gizmodo.com)
An anonymous reader writes: It's no secret Google and their parent company Alphabet are interested in developing smart contact lenses for monitoring diabetes. Well, Google-parent Alphabet has filed a patent which takes their development to another level. The patent specifically covers a method for "injecting a fluid into a lens capsule of an eye, wherein a natural lens of the eye has been removed from the lens capsule." It's powered by "radio frequency energy" received by a small antenna inside. The gadget even has its own data storage. Forbes reports, it is designed to help the focusing of light onto the retina, resulting in the correction of poor vision. Samsung is one of the most recent companies to receive a patent for smart contact lenses. Their lenses are for experimenting with new methods of delivering augmented reality interfaces and data.
The trademark battle over "eyePhone" should be fun to watch!
"Google"
"patent"
"radio frequency energy"
"injecting a fluid into a lens capsule of an eye"
"My eyeball"
No thank you very much.
It's only one step up from current lens replacement in cases of cataracts, which involves sucking out the old lens and inserting a folded lens.
Of course, with this new device, here's hoping nobody hacks your software. And if it's going to be powered by radio waves, you're either going to have to wear some sort of glasses to hide the battery and antenna, or look like a Borg.
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Very doubtful - this is a lens replacement.
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Will it also come with DRM? If you miss a monthly maintenance fee payment will it automatically disable your vision?
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... famous "EyePhone 2.0".
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It sounds like a potentially amazingly cool idea but I'm scared that being done by Google automatically means that it would also be scraping every bit of your life for data and feeding you ads all in a very non-opt-out kinda way.
It will all be worth it when they can inject advertising right into our eyeballs.
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and I prefer to leave it that way. as a ham, I am likely to eff up my eyes when I key the rig. no, not ever, never, ain't coming near here.
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
ya that is ads delivered directly to the eye ball
-- won't start that way
hijacking your focal distance at active ad length --
but eventually direct to the eye ..
"Think about a smart fluid which could be made much more viscous by a radio signal. "
But make sure that you get back all copies of the penile remote in your divorce settlement. In the middle of a hot date, you wouldn't want your ex pressing the 'deflate' button.
TFA expressed shock that someone might have their natural lens removed. This is a routine operation, usually done because of cataracts.
My wife has had this done. She developed cataracts at a relatively young age, and they got bad enough that the insurance company signed off on the cataract surgery.
Noteworthy in my wife's case: we paid the extra money to get a vision-correcting lens in each eye. The usual replacement lens is a neutral lens, but her eyes are now correcting her vision from the inside. Before she had this procedure, she needed glasses all the time for everything. (Or contact lenses of course.) After the procedure, she only needs glasses for reading; they had to pick a distance for the correction to work at, and the default is to leave you able to walk around and drive and such without glasses, but need glasses to read. (Makes sense to me!)
She now has the best vision she has ever had in her life. She grumbles about needing reading glasses but I remind her she used to need glasses all the time for everything; this is a win.
I am seriously considering having this done myself as an elective procedure. I have some presbyopia and I now need glasses to read fine print. There are artificial lenses available that are flexible and restore the ability to focus on near things; these are called accommodating intra-ocular lenses (IOLs). It would be nice to get my close-up vision back. In the USA the available accommodating IOL is called the Crystalens.
I have been calling my wife a "cyborg" as she now has technological lenses rather than natural ones.
Returning to the news story: TFA is absolutely terrible, just awful. It fails to answer the most basic question: what is the purpose of this invention? The link given in TFS shows what seems to be a one-page PDF, but if you use the crude-looking navigation controls on the left you can browse forward and backward through the patent.
http://pdfaiw.uspto.gov/.aiw?docid=20160113760
Pub. No.: US 2016/0113760 A1
Pub. Date: Apr. 28, 2016
Filed: Oct. 24, 2014
Here's the abstract. The PDF appears to be all image, no selectable text, so I just typed all this in.
If I'm understanding that correctly, this is a very complicated way to get a lens that adjusts its focus in response to the normal movements of muscles in the eye to adjust focus.
I don't know why someone would want this rather than a purely passive device like a CrystalLens. I guess this would be more fine-tunable, so might provide the ultimate in vision focus; but it's tremendously more complex and would seem to require an external power supply, rather than being a simple piece of flexible clear material (of just the right shape and implanted in just the right place).
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Table-ized A.I.
So what Google has here (and the summaries aren't great on Gizmodo or Forbes) is an IOL - an intraocular lens - like you get when you have cataract surgery. Unlike your natural, old lens, it can't change shape to "accommodate" -- as it's a piece of silicone or PMMA. Very new lens designs can approximate this, but they rely on the bits of the anatomy left over to do this. A powered might help; RF power is one way of achieving that. Just like regular ol' IOLs, Google's patent one, if it ever reached the market, would have to be "injected" into the eye.
if the USPTO grants this, that's gotta be the end of the US patent system.
The Six Million Dollar Man TV show had a bionic eye – in 1973 for fsck sake.
Google Files Patent For Injecting A Device Directly Into Your Eyeball
What, named me personally, did they?
Please stop letting through headlines with "you" and "your" in them without a second glance. It's a clickbait tactic, regardless of the merit of the story.
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Google and Samsung file for patents for injecting targeted ads directly into your eyeballs, so you can't ignore them even if you close your eyes
And you thought pop-up ads in your web browser were bad.
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Google: "We are Borg, you will be assimilated, resistance is futile"
...to LASER EYES!!
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That would be the Apple iButt.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?