Coming soon!!
In this week’s Economist, there is an article describing the development of contact lenses that can include something like the ‘heads-up’ display that fighter pilots have. All built into, and powered by, the lens itself.
“… not only can LEDs be laid down, but also tiny solar panels and antennae that convert radio waves into electrical energy. Everything is thus in place for a display unit that can extract power from the outside world, and also receive signals from it. All that need then be done is to encapsulate the result in Perspex (chosen because, being the material from which hard contact lenses are routinely made, it can protect the circuitry with harming the wearer’s eye) and shape the whole thing on a heated aluminium mould, so that it fits the eyeball of the wearer.”
How long do you think it will take them to install a camera in that contact lens? But where to put the CF card….?
I’m holding out for the camera in my visual cortex.
-Julie
