Contact Lenses with Mobile Phone Display

clipped from www.textually.org Contact Lenses Could Project Mobile Phone Displays Directly into the Eye Imagine walking down the street and as your mobile phone rings, the name of the caller suddenly appears floating in the air in front of you. That is one of the possibilities offered by a new contact lens which incorporates electronic circuits which can create a type of heads-up display, right within the eyeball. Cellular News reports. "Engineers at the University of Washington have for the first time used manufacturing techniques at microscopic scales to combine a flexible, biologically safe contact lens with an imprinted electronic circuit and lights. clipped from www.cellular-news.com A researcher holds one of the completed lenses Contact lenses with metal connectors for electronic circuits were safely worn by rabbits in lab tests Ideally, installing or removing the bionic eye would be as easy as popping a contact lens in or out, and once installed the wearer would barely know the gadget was there, Parviz said.

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