I want some of these
Souped-Up Contacts Promise Bionic Eyesight
Oh, I did not just say that.
Most advances in retinal implants concentrate on restoring, not enhancing, sight. But there’s hope yet for superhuman vision, and without surgery: A team at the University of Washington has created a contact lens assembled with functional circuitry and LEDs.How many box tops for the x-ray vision?
Potential uses include virtual displays for pilots, video-game projections and telescopic vision for soldiers. A working prototype of a lens-embedded antenna that draws power for the device from radio frequencies has also been created. The next steps are to build a version that can display several pixels — and then to test it on a person.
..."There's a lot of room to expand," Babak Parviz, an assistant professor of electrical engineering at UW, says of the technology. "You can let your imagination run wild."
Oh, I did not just say that.
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