Contact Lenses with Circuits for Superhuman Vision
Engineers at the University of Washington have for the first time used manufacturing techniques at microscopic scales to combine a flexible, biologically safe contact lens with an imprinted electronic circuit and lights.
The prototype contact lens does not correct the wearer’s vision, but the technique could be used on a corrective lens. There are a number of possible uses for virtual displays.
Drivers or pilots could see a vehicle’s speed projected onto the windshield. Video-game companies could use the contact lenses to completely immerse players in a virtual world without restricting their range of motion. And for communications, people on the go could surf the Internet on a midair virtual display screen that only they would be able to see.
Link Via [Science Daily]
January 31, 2008 - Category: Tech - Posted by: Hans - Comments: 3
February 3rd, 2008 at 9:50 am
Whoah that looks cool.
July 12th, 2008 at 10:20 am
Damn it…cool I want a pair of those =))
October 1st, 2008 at 12:24 pm
Please continue research into these. I have been dreaming of such things for years. Imagine the possibilities. Cell phones would simply be WIFI links for us when we are not near our home networks and such, allowing us to have heads up displays like on Ironman of whatever color/variation/purpose we see fit. My main question would be…. Interfacing with said virtual displays…. how would these work, because if we need to learn a complicated series of eye movements or blinks to get this to work. Nix the project now. If the lenses are just monitors for say… our cells, then wouldn’t the devices be able to Triangulate the position of our hands and such with simple gestures to point and click and drag and the like in real time?