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Augmented Contact Lenses Cover Your Eye with a Screen of 100s of LEDs | Inhabitat
Topic: Technology 11:01 pm EDT, Mar 30, 2010

Want eyesight that would make the Terminator jealous? Well, in a few years, you might be able to say hasta la vista to your normal old contact lenses and hello to the solar powered augmented lenses that University of Washington professor Babak Amir Parviz and his students are working on. The technology would embed hundreds of semitransparent LEDs onto a thin lens, letting wearers experience augmented reality right through their eyes. And the applications – from health monitoring to just plain bionic sight – could be endless.nullnullnull

Augmented Contact Lenses Cover Your Eye with a Screen of 100s of LEDs | Inhabitat



 
 
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