View the Internet through your contact lens
There’s some interesting research being done at the University of Washington by Babak A. Parviz and his team into the feasibility of creating the world’s first internet accessible contact lens. That’s right. In the immediate future, you’ll be able to browse your faviourite websites, watch movies and seriously augment your reality via a miniature LCD display that will sit on the eye’s surface. Wild, huh?!
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Optics Graduate said | 25 March, 2011
LEDs at the surface of a Nikon lens cannot form an image on the film. LEDs at the surface of the cornea cannot form an image on the retina.
Kelso said | 7 April, 2011
They already have a semi working prototype of this lens which does allow simple menus. The Optics Graduate is a critic who sadly to say has failed his field of so called expertise.
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