Interactive Data Eyeglasses

clipped from www.popsci.com Heads-Up Display Embedded In Glasses A German company turns regular glasses into an eye-motion-controlled PDA screen clipped from www.fraunhofer.de clipped from www.fraunhofer.de Interactive Data Eyeglasses The data eyeglasses can read from the engineer’s eyes which details he needs to see on the building plans. A CMOS chip with an eye tracker in the microdisplay makes this possible. The eyeglasses are connected to a PDA, display information and respond to commands. For car designers, secret agents in the movies and jet fighter pilots, data eyeglasses – also called head-mounted displays, or HMDs for short – are everyday objects. They transport the wearer into virtual worlds or provide the user with data from the real environment. At present these devices can only display information. “We want to make the eyeglasses bidirectional and interactive so that new areas of application can be opened up,” says Dr. Michael Scholles, business unit manager at the Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems IPMS in Dresden.

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1. Heads-Up Display Embedded In Glasses | Popular Science
2. Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Index Home
3. Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Research News 06-2009-Topic 3

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The Bionic Eye -- Flexible web of micro-sensors enables eye-shaped camera

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Clipped from: The bionic eye: Light-curving camera that may help the blind to see | Mail Online

06th August 2008

The bionic eye: Light-curving camera that may help the blind to see

For years, scientists have set their sights on creating bionic eye transplants to help the blind see.

Yesterday they came a step closer after announcing they had made a camera that can reproduce human vision.

American researchers predict it will revolutionise digital photography and video - and one day even give the gift of sight.

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Clipped from: New Light Sensor Mimicks Eye for Superior Camera Performance - Medgadget - www.medgadget.com

New Light Sensor Mimicks Eye for Superior Camera Performance

One of the disadvantages of modern photo cameras is the flat image sensor that converts light into electric signals. Because of its shape, optics must make up for various aberrations that come to light (excuse the pun). Now scientists at Northwestern University and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed technology that allows for building curved sensors and accompanying electronics. The technology one day might come in handy for developing artificial retinas or next generation endoscopic devices.

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Clipped from: nsf.gov - News - The Shape of Things to Come - US National Science Foundation (NSF)


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The Shape of Things to Come

Flexible web of micro-sensors enables eye-shaped camera, heralds new class of electronics technology that can conform to almost any shape

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Clipped from: nsf.gov - News - Video - John Rogers describes the new camera he helped develop that is based on the eye's structure. - US National Science Foundation (NSF)

View video interviews by engineers John Rogers of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Yonggang Huang of Northwestern University.

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Clipped from: nsf.gov - News - Video - Yonggang Huang describes the new retina-like camera sensor and flexible photosensitive pixels. - US National Science Foundation (NSF)

Yonggang Huang describes the new retina-like camera sensor and flexible photosensitive pixels.

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Pupil reflects emotional state and marks decision making

Neurobiologists of the California Institute of Technology found that changes in pupil diameter correspond to the moment when a simple decision is made.

clipped from www.tfot.info Pupil Dilation Marks Decision Making Neurobiologist Christof Koch of the California Institute of Technology and his colleagues, have found that changes in pupil diameter correspond to the moment when a simple decision is made. He discovered the phenomenon in volunteers viewing ambiguous stimuli. These stimuli, or percepts, consist of images or sounds that can be correctly interpreted in either of two forms, such as the famous optical illusion of a young girl wearing a feathered hat. The image morphs into a picture of an old crone. clipped from mr.caltech.edu "The pupil is not only there to regulate light, but is linked to our emotional state. This may have evolved for us to monitor the emotional state of others, and may offer a very simple way to track decision-making in general," says Koch. The paper, "Pupil dilation reflects perceptual selection and predicts subsequent stability in perceptual rivalry," was published in the early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Eye exercises

Eye Exercises Cures Migraines

The following exercises relax and refresh your eyes and according to an article in the Angela Hayden ART GODDNESS blog they also help to cure migraines:

related: Eyesite - A rolling eye gathers no moss, Simple and free eye exercises and vision health tips

Bionic Eye -- intraocular camera for retinal prostheses

Researchers at University of California L.A have developed a camera to be implanted directly on the eye’s lens that feeds image data to a chip at the back of the eye.

clipped from www.wipo.int (WO/2007/130686) INTRAOCULAR CAMERA FOR RETINAL PROSTHESES An intraocular camera for retinal prostheses may include an optical imaging system comprising a set of optical elements for forming an image of the external world on an image sensor array, wherein the optical elements and the image sensor array may be enclosed in an implantable biocompatible housing that may employ haptic elements for stabilization within the eye. The set of optical elements may be designed to have a short focal length and to provide adequate resolution images that can be transformed into a set of stimulation signals applied to a pixellated microstimulator array. Transmission of the signals from the intraocular camera to a microstimulator driver circuit may be accomplished either by a wired or wireless communication device. Power and control signals may be provided to the intraocular camera by a wired or wireless communication device, or optically by means of ambient illumination or an optical beam.

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