Science fiction technology is becoming a
reality! University of Washington associate engineering professor Babak Parviz
and his colleages are working on generating computerized contact lenses that
contain tiny LED-based augmented reality displays. They have recently reported
(in the Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering) that they developed a
contact lens that can be worn safely and can display a single pixel to the
wearer. To do this, Parviz and his team overcame two issues. First, making
the lenses necessitates toxic materials and high temperatures. Yay toxic crap in my eye! They addressed this by building the circuits with a minimum of
materials, including metal sheets that are only a few nanometers thick. This is supposedly safe (according to the rabbits they tested them on). The
second issue is that the human eye is normally unable to focus on anything
closer than 15 centimeters, so Parviz and his team incorporated a tiny Fresnel lens which converges the LED light onto the retina, which, as Parviz said, “tricks the eye into thinking that the image is
farther away so it can focus on it.” The ultimate goal of this technology is to
be able to use contact lenses as miniature computer screens, where with the
blink of the eye you can surf the Internet or, for example, superimpose a
navigational map over your immediate surroundings.
I think I would rather have my computer in a beautiful necklace where I can project the "screen" onto a wall wherever I am. Although then maybe people would fight for wall space in the streets. Hmmm.
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