Monday, December 10, 2012

This Contact Lens Puts a Display Right On Your Eye

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It seems like everyone and their brother is working on some sort of smart glasses, but how about smart contact lenses? It turns out those might actually be closer than you think.

Researchers at Ghent University have been working on smart contact lenses and now they've got a working prototype that uses an LCD display to put images (text mostly) right on your eyeballs. There have been previous attempts at the same general idea, but most of those only let you utilize a couple of pixels for an image, this version can use the whole surface. One of the researchers on the project, Professor Herbert De Smet, described the status of the project this way...

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